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Authors studied lab results for 28 million Americans with the highest risk and found most are not getting recommended tests to detect life-threatening disease
August 5, 2021, New York, NY — New data suggest that millions of patients most at-risk for life-threatening kidney disease are unaware they have it because they are not tested according to clinical practice guidelines despite their risk. The study, by authors from the National...
Initiative Marks New Phase of the NKF “Are You the 33%?” National Kidney Disease Awareness Campaign
Whippany, N.J., – (BUSINESS WIRE) – February 4, 2021 – Bayer and the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) today announced that award-winning actress, Debbie Allen, has joined the “Are You the 33%?” national public awareness campaign to focus attention on the increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD), also referred to as...
Pilot program to provide education and support for kidney patients seeking living donors
New York, NY, June 10, 2021 – DaVita Kidney Care and the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) today announced their collaboration in launching an innovative, yearlong pilot aimed at improving health equity in kidney transplantation with a newly-developed program within NKF’s THE BIG ASK: THE BIG...
NKF and Elongate align on Dedication to Helping Kidney Patients and Addressing Healthcare Disparities
May 26, 2021, New York, NY – Elongate, the world’s largest, first-ever charity cryptocurrency, will host a livestream on Twitch Sunday, May 30 from 12 pm to 1 pm ET announcing an exciting opportunity with the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), the largest, patient-...
~Highly Regarded Lawyer in the Life Sciences Industry with Decades of Business Acumen~
April 22, 2021—New York, NY — The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is pleased to announce the appointment of California businessman Alan C. Mendelson to its national Board of Directors.
Mendelson is a well-respected and widely recognized lawyer in the life sciences industry who served as a Senior Partner at Latham & Watkins LLP...
Living Donors Save Lives and Give Others a Second Chance at Life
May 13, 2021, New York, NY – While COVID-19 continues to dominate the United States healthcare system, nearly 100,000 Americans are still on a waitlist for a kidney transplant and each day 12 patients die waiting for a kidney. National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Health Policy...
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 ...
Rosley DeClaro to be honored at NKF 2021 Spring Clinical Meetings
April 6, 2021—New York, NY —Each year the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) considers the work of hundreds of specialists in the field of nephrology and selects those who most exemplify the relentless efforts of NKF to enhance the lives of patients through action, education, and accelerating...
April 9, 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 nephrology and selects among them those who most exemplify the relentless efforts of NKF to enhance the lives of patients through action, education, and accelerating change. Their work is vital to the 37 million...
March 9, 2021 - A joint statement from the presidents of the American Society of Nephrology and the National Kidney Foundation
More than 37 million adults in the United States have kidney diseases.
A disproportionate number of those people are Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian American, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, who also face unacceptable health...