A New Paired-Exchange Program Can Help Kidney Patients Who Have a Willing, Living - but Incompatible - Donor

Early ScreeningPatients on the kidney transplant waiting list with potential living donors who are immunologically incompatible now have another option besides continuing to search for another donor. Ajay Israni, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Community Health at the University of Minnesota, presented details of a revolutionary new system that he helped start that exchanges pair donor information between nine different transplant centers in the U.S. Midwest at the NKF's 2008 Spring Clinical Meetings in Dallas last week.

Read more about this study and other kidney-related news at the new NKF Newsroom.

Early Screening Programs Help Combat Kidney Disease

Early ScreeningParticipation in a community screening program for kidney disease encourages people to adopt life-saving behaviors, according to a report in the April edition of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases that was released at the National Kidney Foundation's 2008 Spring Clinical Meetings in Dallas, Texas.

"These findings show that efforts to screen people at risk of disease can boost community-wide health," says Allan J. Collins MD, the study's author and president of the National Kidney Foundation.

Read more about this study and other kidney-related news at the new NKF Newsroom. To learn more about early detection and to sign-up for a kidney screening near you, click here

The National Kidney Foundation, Inc (NKF)., is the major voluntary health organization dedicated to preventing kidney disease, improving the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by kidney disease and increasing the availability of all organs for transplantation. The NKF achieves life-saving results today through the contributions of a generous public including participation in NKF signature initiatives such as the Kidney Cars Vehicle Donation program, Kidney Walks and the NKF Golf Classic.