Recipe Corner

Narmada Kidney Foundation had organized a Diet Workshop in association with Global Hospitals, Mumbai and Indian Dietetic Association, Mumbai Chapter for Patients with Obesity, Diabetes and High Blood Pressure. A cooking contest was also organized in which patients and Nutrition and Dietetics Students participated. Around 80 Students and 50 Patients took part in the cooking […]

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Dialysis Hero

When we talk about diet, we think of those boring dishes we try at home on day to day basis. With Chronic Kidney Disease setting in, lot of restrictions in food set. What to eat and what not becomes a list which has to deliberately followed. I was diagnosed with Glomerulonephritis at the age of […]

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STEROID FREE IMMUNOSUPPRESSION TRANSPLANT

Steroid-free immunosuppression in kidney transplantation has been gaining popularity over the past decade, as documented by a continuous and steady rise in the number of kidney transplant patients discharged on steroid-free regimens.  As of 2006, more than 32% of new kidney transplant patients in the United States were discharged from initial transplant without a steroid […]

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Who Can Donate After Death?

Myths & Facts Decoded – Part I Who Can Donate? Virtually anyone can become a donor. Your Medical condition at the time of death will determine what organs and tissues can be donated for transplant or scientific research. What can keep me from being an organ donor such as age, illness or physical defects? Each […]

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LIFE IS A BEAUTIFUL BOOK

Each Day With A New Hook And A New Ingredient To Cook As each page of book reveals something new, similarly each turn in life reveals something. As each and every book, our life is also made up of pages which are uncountable. At the start of this new page of life that is after […]

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REINVENTING LIFE

An Engineer, a writer, an actor, a director, a travel enthusiast, a sports person and a kidney patient! It is difficult to believe that a kidney transplant patient like me can do so many hats. I am not surprised when at times I am asked ‘who is the patient’ by people who do not know […]

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