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Heather Murphy, NKF's Medical Project Director of Strategic Partnerships On Tuesday, September 15, 2026, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) gat...

Managing phosphorus can be hard for people on dialysis. It usually means changing diet, taking medicines, and tracking lab results. It can also lead t...

As summers continue to get hotter, protecting your kidneys is becoming more important than ever.  New research presented at the National Kidney Founda...

IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is one of the most common rare immune-related diseases that damages the kidneys' tiny filters, called glomeruli. For many ...

Dr. Robert Montgomery, Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, presenting at the 2024 Spring Clinical Meetings Xenotransplant Session. The S...

People living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) often have other health conditions too, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, or heart failure. Toget...

About 1 in 10 people will develop a kidney stone at some point in their life. They can appear suddenly, and the symptoms can be extremely painful. Now...

Angelo Gaffo, David Mount, Stefanie Steiger, Tuhina Neogi, N. Lawrence Edwards, Michael Toprover, Richard Johnson, Chio Yokose, Enver Akalin, Mariano ...

Around 12 of those people die every day waiting for a kidney transplant. But hope is on the horizon. Scientists are testing pig kidney transplants in ...

By Joseph Vassalotti, Chief Medical Officer, National Kidney Foundation This new blog series is authored by physicians and researchers committed to im...