Hélène Campbell

National Kidney Month Highlights Maddeningly Common Disease

National Kidney Month Highlights Maddeningly Common Disease polycystic kidney vs. healthy kidney.We all face mortality, but Ilana Pekar and her son Arie face it more keenly than most. Pekar suffers from Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). Though rarely name-checked in the evil pantheon of life-threatening genetic diseases, PKD is nevertheless maddeningly…