KidneyTalk - An Online Radio Show By Renal Support Network
RSN's KidneyTalk is an informative, inspirational, and entertaining online, half-hour radio talk show that launched in June of 2006 with host RSN Founder and President Lori Hartwell. With Lori Hartwell, a renal disease survivor since 1958, KidneyTalk provides the audience with practical advice on how to live a full and productive life despite CKD. The show features healthcare professionals and people living successfully with kidney disease who share personal experiences in inspirational, thought-provoking interviews.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Episodes
- 396
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
9/12/2006 - Gaining that Winning Smile
Cher Thomas (a dental hygienist and transplant recipient) discusses the relationship between healthy gums and a healthy life.
Tue 12 Sep 2006
8/29/2006 - 100-Plus Years of Kidney Patient Experience
Long-term kidney patient survivors--Roanne Dale, Sharon Pahlka, Lori Hartwell--share tips and strategies on living a long and fulfilling life.
Tue 29 Aug 2006
8/22/2006 - Spicing Up Your Renal Diet
Mary Polucci, RD, shares tasty tips on eating well while sticking to your renal diet.
Tue 22 Aug 2006
8/15/2006 - Take-Home Dialysis
Doing Dialysis in the Comfort of Your Home Guests: Scott Rasgon, MD, and Rafi Minasian, MD
Tue 15 Aug 2006
8/8/2006 - Taking Dialysis on the Road
Marcel Levique (a dialysis travel specialist) shares tips on traveling with dialysis to ensure an uneventful trip.
Tue 08 Aug 2006
8/5/2006 - Finding Alternative Solutions for Organ Donation: A Patient's Perspective
Sally Satel (a New York Times Op-Ed writer and transplant recipient) shares her perspective on increasing organ donation.
Sat 05 Aug 2006
7/31/2006 - Dialysis Success
The definition of dialysis success for this long-time kidney patient, Roanne Dale, is looking great and feeling great while on dialysis. While this might sound like an oxymoron, one look at Roanne pr…
Mon 31 Jul 2006
7/25/2006 - For The Love Pets with Deb Hurdle
Deb Hurdle, an "Animal-Assisted Therapy Expert," shares the therapeutic benefits that pets have on helping people who have a chronic illness heal.
Tue 25 Jul 2006
7/18/2006 - Laughing Through the Illness
Comedian Howie Mandel, host of the TV game show "Deal or No Deal," discusses how humor can help you through a chronic illness. Oftentimes, humor is just the medicine we need!
Tue 18 Jul 2006
7/11/2006 - Choosing and Caring for Your Vascular Access
Lana Kacherova, RN and Vickie Peters, RN discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different dialysis accesses - your lifeline, so you will make the best choices and avoid complications.
Tue 11 Jul 2006
7/4/2006 - Independent Living with Home Dialysis
Hasmik Mouradian shares her thoughts on how home hemodialysis has helped her feel more in control, as well as some of the fears she faced in taking dialysis home and how she overcame those fears.
Tue 04 Jul 2006
6/27/2006 - Traveling Around the Globe: Adventures of a Hemodialysis Patient
Bill Peckham has undergone hemodialysis since 1990 and has traveled all over the world, dialyzing in 19 countries on five continents. Learn about his adventures and hear firsthand what dialysis is li…
Tue 27 Jun 2006
6/20/2006 - Peter Quaife - Rock Star
Peter Quaife, a former member of the popular British rock group "The Kinks," who began hemodialysis in 1998. To pass the time, Peter began drawing cartoons about what went on at his dialysis clinic. …
Tue 20 Jun 2006
6/13/2006 - Dating with Kidney Disease, and When Do You Tell?
Two patients who provide real-life advice and insight on dating in light of the special restrictions of living with renal disease.
Tue 13 Jun 2006
6/6/2006 - Jodi Picoult - Best Selling Author
Jodi Picoult, a best-selling novelist and author of "My Sister's Keeper," the story of a young woman conceived in order to be a blood cell and tissue donor to her older sister. The young woman balks,…
Tue 06 Jun 2006
3/31/2006 - Welcome to Kidney Talk
An introduction to the KidneyTalk online radio show featuring Lori Harwell and Stephen Furst.
Fri 31 Mar 2006
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