Press Room

December 2018
National Kidney Foundation Statement on Texas v United States Ruling
Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions Will be Left Unprotected
Quotes for attribution to National Kidney Foundation
New York, NY – December 17, 2018 – Patients with pre...

December 2018
NKF Conference on Home Dialysis Examines Ways to Encourage Patients to Treat Kidney Failure at Home
New York, NY – Dec. 5, 2018 – A team of kidney professionals, patients and caregivers met in Baltimore Nov. 30 to work through ways to remove barriers to home dialysis...

December 2018
Medical Experts Gather in Atlanta to Improve Clinical Care for Children with Chronic Kidney Disease
The National Kidney Foundation to host first ever conference on kids with CKD
New York, NY – Dec. 5, 2018 – Living with kidney disease as an adult is difficult, but living with...

December 2018
National Kidney Foundation Bestows Highest Honor on San Francisco’s Neil Powe, MD
Dr. Powe to receive the David M. Hume Memorial Award at the 2019 Spring Clinical Meetings
New York, NY, Dec. 4, 2018 - Each year the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) considers...

December 2018
Pittsburgh’s Dr. Beth Piraino to Receive National Kidney Foundation's J. Michael Lazarus Award
Award to be presented at the 2019 Spring Clinical Meetings
New York, NY, Dec. 4, 2018 - Each year the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) considers the work of hundreds of...

November 2018
NKF Concerned about Proposed Changes to Medicare Part D
November 26, 2018
All statement quotes for attribution to National Kidney Foundation (NKF)
“November 26, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...

November 2018
New York Passes Living Donor Protection Act
All quotes for attribution to National Kidney Foundation (NKF).
New York, NY -- November 8, 2018 -- “The National Kidney Foundation congratulates New York Governor Andrew Cuomo...

November 2018
California Voters Put Dialysis Patients First, Prop 8 is Defeated
November 7, 2018
All quotes for attribution to National Kidney Foundation
“California voters have put dialysis patients first and voted down proposition 8, previously...

October 2018
National Kidney Foundation Announces the Launch of Kidney Medicine
A new open access publication joins the NKF family of journals
New York, NY, Oct. 23, 2018 - The National Kidney Foundation (NKF), and Elsevier, the information analytics...

October 2018
Report of National Kidney Foundation Consensus Conference to Decrease Kidney Discards
New report published today online in the journal Clinical Transplantation
New York, NY—October 22, 2018—The organ supply shortage is a major challenge facing the field of whole...