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Major breakthrough in the battle against kidney disease in children
13 March 2025The Dutch Kidney Foundation takes giant step towards a cure The Dutch Kidney Foundation starts the development of groundbreaking gene therapy, with €10 million donated...
EKHA Marks World Kidney Day 2025
13 March 2025Are Your Kidneys OK? Detect early, protect kidney health Today, EKHA joins the international kidney health and care community in marking World Kidney Day, a...
Recognising the Cruciality of Testing and Detection in Addressing Kidney Disease
13 March 2025In Europe, around 100 million people suffer from kidney disease, and some 300 million are at risk of developing a kidney condition. Often-seen but frequently...
New EKHA General Manager
31 January 2025EKHA 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...
EKHA’s 2025 European Kidney Forum in the European Parliament Focuses on the Need for Screening and Early Detection to Improve Outcomes
20 January 2025The 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...
New EKHA Publications Focus on Home Dialysis Potential and Disaster Preparedness
22 August 2024Two 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...
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...