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Diabetes raises risk of kidney disease and kidney failure, but many patients don’t realize the risk
New York, NY – November 14, 2019 - How much do American adults know about kidney disease and its relationship to diabetes? Not so much as it turns out, according to the results from a new...
Innovation Awards announced at KidneyX Summit
New York, NY, April 29, 2019—Today at the KidneyX Summit held in Washington, DC, the inaugural prizes for Redesign Dialysis will be announced. This initial phase of KidneyX, which is a public-private partnership between the U.S....
New York, NY – October 22, 2019 – The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has joined forces with Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global innovator in renal care, to highlight and support NKF Peers, a free program that matches people with kidney disease by phone with a peer mentor who has “been there.” This...
Results presented at late-breaking trial session of National Kidney Foundation's 2019 Spring Clinical Meetings
New York, NY–Sept. 15, 2019— The respected peer-reviewed, medical journal The Lancet will publish today the results of a study presented in May at the National Kidney Foundation's 2019 Spring Clinical Meetings as a late breaking clinical trial that may offer hope to some patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD)...
New York, NY, July 10, 2019—Today President Trump announced a bold vision for transforming kidney care for the estimated 37 million Americans affected by kidney disease. During a speech at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center attended by National Kidney Foundation (NKF) volunteers, patients, care partners and leadership, government officials and other kidney organizations, the...
For second year, company will serve as Kidney Walk National Presenting Sponsor
Waltham, MA - March 27, 2019 – For the second year, Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), the largest provider of dialysis products and services, will serve as National Presenting Sponsor for the National Kidney Foundation’s 2019 Kidney Walks. As part of that...
New York, NY—April 3, 2018—At the National Kidney Foundation’s (NKF) 27th Annual Spring Clinical Meetings, the foundation will bestow its highest honors to some of the nation’s leading kidney disease researchers, clinicians, patient advocates, government officials and corporate partners. The awards will be presented on April 11 and 12 during the Spring Clinicals...
June 5, 2019
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) applauds Senators Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) for introducing legislation that seeks to expand access to high-quality care for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. The Chronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 2019 (...
New partnership with Fresenius Medical Care Foundation to bring in-person trainings to help kidney patients find a living donor
New York, NY – June 18, 2019 – In a life-saving leap for THE BIG ASK: THE BIG GIVE (BABG) platform, designed to increase kidney transplantation and living donation, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has expanded its...
Research Finds More than Half of Patients with Abnormal Kidney Function Not Getting Timely Follow-up
Paper cites reasons including physicians’ high workloads and electronic health record design as key challenges to patients getting timely follow-up tests
New York, NY - July 16, 2019 – A team of investigators studied electronic medical data on more than 200,000 of adults and found that 58 percent of patients with a newly abnormal estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were not getting timely follow-up testing after...