FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
Thank You for Your Interest in
Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)!

Order PKD Educational Materials
To better serve you and your patients, we’ve created several free PKD educational materials for your office and waiting room. Please fill out this order form, and choose the materials you'd like to receive. We'll have your free packet of information in the mail within the week! Because of the high costs of shipping, the PKD Foundation cannot send educational materials to countries other than the United States, Canada and Mexico. To request an electronic copy of these materials, please email Allison Bogart at allisonb@pkdcure.org. For PKD information in other languages, click here.

FDA-PKD Foundation Scientific Workshop
The Food & Drug Administration and the PKD Foundation co-sponsored a spring Workshop that focused on outcome measures in clinical trials for PKD patients. Learn more about the discussion and view the presentations.

Read PKD Medical Articles:
The PKD Foundation has teamed up with Nephrology News and Issues to provide quarterly articles related to PKD geared toward the nephrology community. The goal of these articles is to increase awareness of PKD and to position the PKD Foundation as a resource for the medical community, as well as patients. The publication has agreed to continue carrying the articles through 2007.
December 2005: PKD Progress Report (PDF)
March 2006: Diagnosing PKD (PDF)
June 2006: Earlier Diagnosis of PKD, Hypertension (PDF)
August 2006: CRISP (PDF)
December 2006: Genetic Studies (PDF)
March 2007: Renal Transplantation for ADPKD Patients (PDF)

Learn About PKD Clinical Trials & Other Research
Both you and your patients can learn more about the many
PKD clinical trials taking place, worldwide. You may also be interested in other
research news.
Disclaimer: The PKD Foundation is not an accredited medical institution. It is a non-profit organization committed to raising funds for PKD research and awareness for the world's most common, life-threatening genetic disease.