Kidney Care Community News

The National Kidney Foundation will recognize Jessica Joseph, MBA, the foundation’s senior vice president of scientific operations, and others with the Garabed Eknoyan Award, according to a press release.

The inclusion of kidney health measures, as recommended by Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes, led to more accurate predictions of 10-year risk for CVD events than did standard cardiovascular risk criteria alone.

At the start of National Kidney Month, Fresenius Medical Care has launched a program focused on improving care coordination for patients with chronic kidney disease.

Emphasizing that race is not a biological construct, but rather a social construct, a speaker contended that the “multifaceted nature” of disparities impacting outcomes for children with kidney disease must be explored.

The National Kidney Foundation has launched a national registry for patients at all stages of kidney disease, which the organization hopes will bolster research initiatives aimed at improving individualized patient-centered care.

Advocating for patients on dialysis across the United States, the American Society of Nephrology joined more than 40 kidney organizations in sending a letter to the Biden-Harris administration COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

Adding to its resources on rare diseases, The American Kidney Fund has launched an education and awareness campaign on primary hyperoxaluria.

Placing Black patients on the waitlist at “slightly” higher levels of kidney function than the current standard may help mitigate some persisting racial disparities in access to kidney transplantation.

Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes has revised its guideline on managing blood pressure in patients with chronic kidney disease. The guideline was originally published in 2012.

Dialysis providers are recovering from power blackouts and winter storms that pummeled Texas last week, but limited access to clean water needed to perform treatments have forced disaster teams to find alternative suppliers.