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Kidneycure Announces 2024 Grant Recipients

The 2024 grant recipients, listed below, will extend this trajectory of achievement, and continue to improve quality of life for those living with kidney diseases.
27-Jun-2024 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

American Society of Nephrology Commends The House Energy And Commerce Committee for Advancing The Honor our Living Donors (Hold) Act (H.R. 6020)

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) applauds the House Energy and Commerce Committee for unanimously passing the Honor Our Living Donors Act (H.R. 6020), to ensure that only the income of a living donor can be considered when determining...
12-Jun-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model Announced To Increase Patient Access To Kidney Transplantation

The long-awaited Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model was released yesterday by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) focusing on increasing patients’ access to kidney transplantation across the United States.
9-May-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Kidney Health Initiative Unveils APOL1 Roadmap to Address APOL1 Kidney Disease

APOL1 Kidney Disease (APOL1 KD) is a genetic condition that affects people who carry a high-risk APOL1 gene variant. Most people with those variants are of African ancestry.
23-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

American Society of Nephrology Calls on Congress to Increase Funding for the US Transplant System

Today, leaders from the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) will meet with their congressional delegations and call for their support of an $8 million increase for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Organ Transplantation...
17-Apr-2024 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

International Consensus Statement Published in Nature Reviews Nephrology Calls for Urgent Action to Address Chronic Kidney Disease on the Global Public Health Agenda

Nature Reviews Nephrology published a landmark international consensus statement titled "Chronic Kidney Disease and the Global Public Health Agenda: An International Consensus." Authored by a coalition of leading experts, stakeholders, and...
4-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Trial Tests Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Time in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

• Sedentary time decreased, stepping time increased, and number of steps per day increased among patients with chronic kidney disease assigned to the ‘Sit Less, Interact, Move More’ intervention. • These effects were not sustained after 20...
16-Apr-2021 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

American Society of Nephrology Celebrates Transformational Transplant Funding

Delivering on its commitment to increase Americans’ access to kidney transplant by improving the transparency and efficiency of our nation’s transplant network, Congress this week approved a much-needed $23 million federal funding increase in...
24-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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