Kidney Care Community News

The American Association of Kidney Patients has given Barry Smith, PhD, MD, president of Dreyfus Health Policy and Research Center, its 2024 medal of excellence award.

Editor’s note: Healio | Nephrology News & Issues interviewed Michelle Estrella, MD, MHS, a professor of medicine and the renal section chief at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, about her role as conference chairperson and highlights of the agenda for the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, which take place May 14-18 in Long Beach, California. For more information and to register for the meeting, visit www.kidney.org/spring-clinical.

Editor’s note: Healio interviewed Brendan T. Bowman, MD, program chair of the Renal Physicians Association Annual Meeting, taking place April 11-14 in Baltimore.

An international consensus statement calling for urgent action to address chronic kidney disease has been published in Nature Reviews Nephrology.

Nephrologists at West Virgina University Medicine have entered into an agreement to join the Interwell Health physician network.

Baxter International disclosed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing earlier this month that it would consider selling its kidney care business instead of spinning it off as originally planned.

Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes has announced the release of its 2024 clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and management of chronic kidney disease.

Balboa Nephrology and IKONA Health have entered into a partnership to develop, test and commercialize education for people with kidney disease, according to a press release.

The National Kidney Foundation is set to recognize World Kidney Day on March 14 by advocating its patient-focused group Kidney Equity for All, according to a press release.

Several indicators of structural racism were linked with a higher prevalence of chronic health conditions in residential neighborhoods, according to a recently published study.