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Animated Video Series and Heat Maps are Visual Guides for What You Need to Know about CKD

(October 10, 2022, New York, NY) ­­– The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has launched a new animated video series aimed at educating people on their chronic kidney disease (CKD) risk. “Kidney...

New York, NY (July 1, 2022) – The following is a statement from Kevin Longino, Chief Executive Officer of the National Kidney Foundation and a kidney transplant recipient, on the House Appropriations Committee’s FY 2023 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.

“The National Kidney Foundation applauds the House Appropriations committee for its dedication to fighting kidney...

February 8, 2022

The United States Pathology and Laboratory Society Leadership has endorsed the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Joint Task Force recommendation to use a new race-free equation to diagnose kidney diseases, also known as chronic kidney disease. Serum creatinine with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFRcr) is frequently measured and reported by United States clinical...

Both Organizations Recommend Race-Free Approach to Estimate GFR

Sept. 23, 2021, New York, NY – Today, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases has released its final report, which outlines a new race-free...

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 History Month by highlighting the health equity initiatives accomplished throughout the year such as the formation of NKF’s first-ever Health Equity Advisory Committee (HEAC) reaching its one-year anniversary and the recommendation for a race-free...

New York, NY—April 9, 2021—The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) announce the concurrent publication of “Special Article: Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases: An Interim Report from the NKF-ASN Task Force” in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology(JASN) and the ...

A joint statement from the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society of Nephrology 

August 24, 2021 - The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) congratulate the NKF-ASN Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases for submitting its final report for publication. 

On behalf of the leadership of NKF and ASN, we are excited...

A Scientific Workshop Co-Sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation and the US Food and Drug Administration

April 1, 2020, New York, NY — Emerging evidence supports the use of alternative endpoints to demonstrate the efficacy of treatments for progression of chronic kidney diseases.  Most notably in March 2018, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), in collaboration with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the...

Dec. 7, 2020, New York, NY —A new study published today in the National Kidney Foundation’s American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) has found that it is possible to accurately assess patients for the stages of kidney disease without using race in the equation, which is currently routinely used as part of the diagnosis process in the United States.

Kidney disease affects an...

The “Are You the 33%?® Campaign Empowers Everyone to Take Quick Action

Sept 15, 2021, New York, NY — In observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the National Kidney Foundation’s(NKF) national public awareness campaign, ...