New EKHA General Manager
EKHA is searching for a new General Manager envisioned to be on-board by 1 April 2025 to work in transition with the current General Manager whose tenure ends on 30 June 2025. See full Job Description here.
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EKHA’s 2025 European Kidney Forum in the European Parliament Focuses on the Need for Screening and Early Detection to Improve Outcomes
Boris2025-01-20T09:30:47+01:00The 2025 edition of EKHA’s annual European Kidney Forum policy event will take place on 28 January at the European Parliament in Brussels. The event will be hosted by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Tomislav Sokol (EPP, Croatia) and András Kulja (EPP, Hungary). This year’s European Kidney Forum, titled “Early...
New EKHA Publications Focus on Home Dialysis Potential and Disaster Preparedness
Boris2024-08-22T09:48:11+02:00Two 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 &...
ECDA Campaign Highlights Growing Burden of NCDs in Europe
Boris2024-05-29T17:31:23+02:00Ahead 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 Article Focuses on Cardiovascular Risk for Kidney Patients
Boris2024-05-15T12:13:09+02:00EKHA’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...
ESOT Action Day Focuses on Political Dimension of Transplantation
Boris2024-05-07T09:42:15+02:00On 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...
EKHA Paper Explores Altruistic Donation
Boris2024-05-02T12:45:24+02:00A 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...
EKHA Article Considers Innovation in Kidney Disease Science and Care
Boris2024-04-25T11:38:27+02:00A 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...
ASN-ERA-ISN International Consensus Statement Calls for Urgent Action to Address CKD on the Global Public Health Agenda
Boris2024-04-25T11:37:57+02:00On 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),...
EKHA Celebrates World Kidney Day 2024
Boris2024-03-14T08:59:07+01:00Chronic 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...