Press Room
February 2022
NKF Celebrates Black History Month by Highlighting Health Equity Initiatives
Formation of Health Equity Committee and New Race-Free way to estimate kidney function
Feb. 3, 2022, New York, NY — The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is excited to celebrate Black...
January 2022
NKF Awards Boston Nutrition Specialist with Kopple Award
January 26, 2022, New York, NY — The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is pleased to announce that Boston Renal Nutrition Specialist, Haewook Han, PhD, RD, LDN, FNKF, is the...
January 2022
NKF and Imperial Headwear Partner to Help People with Kidney Disease
January 26, 2022, New York, NY —The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is proud to announce that Imperial Headwear will join us once again as the “Official Headwear” and National...
January 2022
Kidney Disease Experts Support Standardization of Measuring Blood Pressure and Other 2021 Guidelines
January 18, 2022, New York, NY — The National Kidney Foundation's (NKF) work group of kidney disease experts released their commentary today in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD)...
January 2022
COVID-19 and its Impact on Kidney Patients Utilizing U.S. Dialysis Centers
A joint statement from the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society of Nephrology
January 18, 2022
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN...
January 2022
NKF Honors Pediatric Dialysis Nurse with Mattix Award
Upstate New York nurse to receive honor at NKF’s Spring Clinical Meetings 2022
Jan. 11, 2022, New York, NY — Each year The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) considers the work...
January 2022
Nephrologist from Johns Hopkins University to Receive NKF’s Garabed Eknoyan Award
Jan. 5, 2022, New York, NY — Each year The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) considers the work of hundreds of specialists in the field of Nephrology and selects among them...
December 2021
NKF Presents Shaul G. Massry Award to UNC Researcher
Dec. 15, 2021, New York, NY —Each year the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) considers the work of hundreds of specialists, advocates, and volunteers in the field of...
November 2021
NKF Appoints Three Top Executives to Board of Directors
Hubert L. Allen of Illinois, Renée Richardson Gosline of Massachusetts and Alison Steiber of Ohio join the fight against kidney disease
November 10, 2021, New York, NY — The...
November 2021
Labcorp and NKF Promote Patient Registry to Enhance Clinical Trial Accessibility, Diversity
BURLINGTON, N.C., and NEW YORK, N.Y., Nov. 4, 2021 — Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a leading global life sciences company, and the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), the largest patient...