Two new EKHA publications, co-authored by EKHA’s President Prof. Em. Raymond Vanholder, consider, respectively, the potential of neglected home dialysis assets in Europe and ways to prepare those impacted by kidney disease against disasters. “Unlocking the untapped potential: the neglected home dialysis assets in Europe” (Vanholder, Bach, Davies, Finne &...
Ahead of the Global Week for Action on NCDs, the European Chronic Disease Alliance (ECDA), of which EKHA is a member, has launched a campaign for action and investment in NCDs prevention and management, titled “Investing in a healthy Europe, free of preventable NCDs”. The campaign, supported by EKHA, starts...
EKHA’s latest publication centres around the increased cardiovascular risk which those suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD) face. Writing in Nature Reviews Nephrology, Heidi Noels and colleagues consider how mechanisms that are uniquely associated with kidney disease partly drive an increased cardiovascular risk for patients with CKD compared with the general...
On 28 April, EKHA joined the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) in celebrating its Action Day. This year’s Action Day’s theme centred around inequalities in organ transplantation and on opportunities for transforming the organ transplantation landscape in Europe during the 2024-2029 period. ESOT’s recently released manifesto, “Tackling Inequalities in...
A newly published EKHA paper considers the topic of altruistic donation. In “Facts and myths about altruistic organ donation”, published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Sever and colleagues shed light on the facts and myths that surround altruistic kidney donation, a rare phenomenon that entails individuals donating kidneys to kidney patients...
A newly released EKHA article focuses on advances in the science and care of kidney diseases. In “A new era in the science and care of kidney diseases”, released in Nature Reviews Nephrology, Zoccali and colleagues highlight how advances in pharmaceutical development, research technologies, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine hold...
On April 3, 2024, Nature Reviews Nephrology published a landmark international consensus statement titled “Chronic Kidney Disease and the Global Public Health Agenda: An International Consensus”. The statement was authored by a group of experts and stakeholder organisations, including the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the European Renal Association (ERA),...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) impacts some 850 million people around the globe, and kidney disease currently stands as the 8th leading cause of death worldwide. If CKD is not addressed, projections indicate that it will become the 5th leading cause of death by 2040. On 14 March, the European Kidney...
Working hard with EKPF, EUTOX, IMEC, ISN, RENALOO and ISS Fundacion UAM on the PREVENTCKD project to better prevent CKD from happing in the future. The objectives of PREVENTCKD are: Increase awareness on the characteristics, implications and impact of CKD at EU population level and EU policy level, Preventing CKD from developing; Screening...
A new EU-funded project – KitNewCare – aims to help health and care systems better embrace environmental sustainability and climate-neutrality, with a focus on kidney care. The project runs from January 2024 to December 2027. At the heart of this initiative is a pressing issue: healthcare systems are significant contributors to...
