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There are many aspects that impact your overall health and wellbeing. Genetic factors and lifestyle choices are among the most common determinants of your health. Given this, why are certain populations more susceptible to certain conditions than others? What other factors are at play to impact minority populations more than Caucasian populations?  National Minority Health Month seeks to answer these questions while raising awareness of the widespread health disparities among populations.

Touring with Pitbull while on dialysis? David Rush didn't let his diagnosis stop him!

David Rush is a platinum selling recording artist signed to Pitbull's label, Mr.305 inc. As a patient in center, home, transplant recipient and back to home David Rush truly knows what it means to live life while on Dialysis. As a Nxstage patient David took his machine on a 40 city world tour in 2009 with Pitbull as an opening act. In present-day David Rush is now married with two children after a successful transplant in November 2010 that was given to him by his brother. David went back to Home Hemodialysis in January 2017 when his transplant failed. He works now as a patient consultant and Advocate for Nxstage Medical while all still pursuing his dreams on a daily basis.

When: April 12 at 3:00 PM Eastern

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The Coalition for Supportive Care of Kidney Patients (CSCKP), created by ESRD Network 5, has released two new tools to assist patients and their care teams with advance care planning. While this conversation may be uncomfortable, the resources provided in their new brochure Planning Today for Tomorrow’s Healthcare: A Guide for People with Chronic Kidney Disease help patients, their families and their health care teams through the process of advance care planning. These tools were developed as part of the MY WAY: Make Your Wishes About You project whose principal investigator, Dr. Dale Lupu, is a national leader in hospice and palliative care.