From Cabaret.BroadwayWorld.com, by BWW News Desk
Ali Ewoldt, Kate Rockwell & More Set for Broadway Sings for PKD at 54 Below
The third Broadway Sings for PKD, a concert benefitting the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, will be offered Wednesday, August 21st at 54 Below in NYC.
The 11:30 PM concert will feature new musical theatre songs by emerging writers, including Gaby Alter, Landon Braverman, Derek P. Hassler, Timothy Huang, Bob Kelly, Itamar Moses, Kelly Pomeroy, and
more.
Performers will include Broadway actors Ali Ewoldt, (Les Miserables, The Fantasticks), F. Michael Haynie (Wicked, Dogfight), Amber Iman (Soul Doctor), Janet Krupin (Hands on a Hardbody, Bring it On), Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Love Labour's Lost), Kate Rockwell (Rock of Ages, Bring it On), Robb Sapp (Shrek, Wicked), and Tally Sessions (Big Fish, Yank), and rising star Melanie Burg. Ben Cameron (Wicked) will host.
Broadway Sings for PKD is produced and directed by Rachel Kunstadt, with musical direction by Yan Li.
Proceeds from the evening will go to the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, which "promotes programs of research, advocacy, education, support and awareness in order to discover treatments and a cure for Polycystic Kidney Disease and improve the lives of all it affects."
54 Below is located at 254 W 54th St, Cellar. For tickets, visit www.54below.com. For more information on the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, visit www.pkdcure.org.
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Budget Cuts
From PostTrib.SunTimes.com, by Jerry Davich, Crown Point, Indiana
Dialysis patients drained by proposed budget cutJames Myers sat quietly in a large chair as his blood was artificially cleansed of waste by a whirring dialysis machine that beeped every few seconds.
With a blanket draped over his legs and a catheter connected to his chest, Myers sat patiently inside the Fresenius Medical Center in Crown Point. He visits there three times a week for at least four hours each time to undergo hemodialysis, which replaces the function of his failing kidneys.
The 59-year-old Crown Point man suffers from polycystic kidney disease, which took the lives of several family members, including his father. Though Myers was diagnosed in his younger days, his positive lifestyle choices the past three decades only delayed the inevitable.
His genetic fate caught up to him last summer. He’s been on dialysis ever since. [Read more]
Renal Disease
From Philippine Information Agency
Renal disease is top 6 cause of death in Kalinga
TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Aug. 14 (PIA) -- End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is ranked as the top six cause of death in Kalinga in 2012 with 51 reported cases at the Provincial Health Office (PHO).
Donalyn Lasmarias, point person on lifestyle diseases at the Kalinga PHO said the renal disease has sustained its fifth to sixth rank for the past five years, making it one of the top three lifestyle diseases of mortality in the province.
For the first quarter this year, some public schools have also conducted a deepstick urine test among students and at least four female ages 5-14 were found to be positive of renal disease.
Rural Health Units have also reported that deep stick conducted among adults ages 20-64 resulted to the finding of at least 12 females and four males to be positive or renal disease. These cases were referred to the municipal health units or the provincial hospital for proper management.
Several patients she said are availing of outside health facilities for their treatment such dialysis and other medical needs considering that the Kalinga Provincial Hospital has yet to establish its own dialysis center.
Based on studies, diabetes and high blood pressure are the most common causes of ESRD, thus it is vital to manage these with your doctor so it would not result to ESRD or kidney failure which is the stage when the kidneys no longer work for a person to live without dialysis or a kidney transplant, Lasmarias said.
Other causes also include auto immune diseases (like lupus, HIV and IgA nephropathy), Genetic diseases like polycystic kidney disease, injuries and some medicines or other drugs. [Read more]
Donalyn Lasmarias, point person on lifestyle diseases at the Kalinga PHO said the renal disease has sustained its fifth to sixth rank for the past five years, making it one of the top three lifestyle diseases of mortality in the province.
For the first quarter this year, some public schools have also conducted a deepstick urine test among students and at least four female ages 5-14 were found to be positive of renal disease.
Rural Health Units have also reported that deep stick conducted among adults ages 20-64 resulted to the finding of at least 12 females and four males to be positive or renal disease. These cases were referred to the municipal health units or the provincial hospital for proper management.
Several patients she said are availing of outside health facilities for their treatment such dialysis and other medical needs considering that the Kalinga Provincial Hospital has yet to establish its own dialysis center.
Based on studies, diabetes and high blood pressure are the most common causes of ESRD, thus it is vital to manage these with your doctor so it would not result to ESRD or kidney failure which is the stage when the kidneys no longer work for a person to live without dialysis or a kidney transplant, Lasmarias said.
Other causes also include auto immune diseases (like lupus, HIV and IgA nephropathy), Genetic diseases like polycystic kidney disease, injuries and some medicines or other drugs. [Read more]
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