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ECDA Campaign Highlights Growing Burden of NCDs in Europe
29 May 2024Ahead of the Global Week for Action on NCDs, the European Chronic Disease Alliance (ECDA), of which EKHA is a member, has launched a campaign...
EKHA Article Focuses on Cardiovascular Risk for Kidney Patients
15 May 2024EKHA’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...
ESOT Action Day Focuses on Political Dimension of Transplantation
7 May 2024On 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...
EKHA Paper Explores Altruistic Donation
2 May 2024A newly published EKHA paper considers the topic of altruistic donation. In “Facts and myths about altruistic organ donation”, published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Sever...
EKHA Article Considers Innovation in Kidney Disease Science and Care
24 April 2024A newly released EKHA article focuses on advances in the science and care of kidney diseases. In “A new era in the science and care...
ASN-ERA-ISN International Consensus Statement Calls for Urgent Action to Address CKD on the Global Public Health Agenda
24 April 2024On April 3, 2024, Nature Reviews Nephrology published a landmark international consensus statement titled “Chronic Kidney Disease and the Global Public Health Agenda: An International...
EKHA Celebrates World Kidney Day 2024
14 March 2024Chronic kidney disease (CKD) impacts some 850 million people around the globe, and kidney disease currently stands as the 8th leading cause of death worldwide....
PREVENTCKD: work in progress!
27 February 2024Working hard with EKPF, EUTOX, IMEC, ISN, RENALOO and ISS Fundacion UAM on the PREVENTCKD project to better prevent CKD from happing in the future....
KitNewCare: Pioneering Transformation in Kidney Healthcare Sustainability Across Europe
19 February 2024A new EU-funded project – KitNewCare – aims to help health and care systems better embrace environmental sustainability and climate-neutrality, with a focus on kidney...
EKHA Workshop Highlights Need for EU Action on Organ Donation and Transplantation
12 February 2024On 25 January 2024, EKHA organised a workshop on organ donation and transplantation in the European Union (EU). This workshop was convened with the support...
