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Colorado HealthNet – Kidney Disease and Dialysis Center
This site provides definitions, facts, FAQ’s and statistics on kidney disease and dialysis. Patients can read important information on blood chemistries, recent developments in the field of dialysis, services and resources. This site also includes a Kidney Disease and Dialysis library, full of helpful articles and books, and links to other related sites.
Kidney Dialysis Foundation
"The Kidney Dialysis Foundation (KDF) attends to the well being of needy people stricken with end-stage kidney disease. We help to save lives through subsidized haemodialysis treatment." This website has a detailed, easy-to-understand list of topics which explain kidney diseases, signs and symptoms, haemodialysis, renal transplants, general advice for a kidney patient, and more. This site also features a bulletin board where kidney disease patients, family, and friends can post and receive messages.
Kidney Patients Information
This website has been designed to provide detailed yet basic information to kidney patients and their families. The site is sectioned off into individual pages dealing with hemodialysis and CAPD, renal transplantation and aftercare, and diet and exercise. This site also gives the history of dialysis, some physical diagrams, and links.
KidneyWeb
KidneyWeb, a site is designed for heath care workers, patients, families and anyone interested in kidney disease, is a "one stop shop to kidney dialysis and other related sites on the Internet." KidneyWeb has links to comprehensive nephrology sites, government organizations, online journals, transplant information, patient resources, associations, and specific disease information.
Organ Donation – Kidney Foundation of Canada
"Promoting organ donation has always been one of the cornerstones of the Foundation’s mission." This page focuses on the crucial shortage of organs available for transplantation, offering information about what can be donated, where further information is available, and what research is being conducted with regard to organ transplantation.
Questions About Kidney Transplantation
This page, from TransWeb.org (a site all about transplantation and donation), answers specific questions regarding kidney transplantation – from life expectancy, to chronic rejections, to waiting lists. There is also a link to some personal stories of the experiences of living kidney donors.
RenalWEB
This site is self-described as the vortex web site of the dialysis world. This site includes features such as updated news, discussion groups, classifieds and links. However, the main source of interest here are the Dialysis Yellow Pages – a database of information on hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, ESRD-related therapies, pharmaceuticals / diet, water treatment, patient services, laboratories / analyzers, computer products, infection control, ESRD-related equipment and services, and ESRD-related general supplies.
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