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Countdown on health and climate change, cites heatwaves as increasing risks for kidney diseases
11 December 2018On 28 November The Lancet released its Countdown report, which tracks progress on health and climate change, providing an independent, global scanning of the health...
Guernsey, UK is the latest to introduce opt-out system for organ donors
11 December 2018On 28 November the States of Guernsey voted to introduce an opt-out organ donation system. Adoption of an opt-out system follows on the trend sweeping...
WHO and EU commit to work together to accelerate progress on health
11 December 2018On 19–21 November, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus participated in a series of meetings with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and other senior European...
Health advocates stress the need for a Vice-President for health in the Next Commission
11 December 2018On 22 November, a diverse group of EU lawmakers, NGOs, trade associations, and private companies beyond the health sector launched a new coalition during an...
EKHA’s proposed Network on Improving Organ Donation and Transplantation selected by the EU Health Policy Platform
10 December 2018We are proud to announce that the European Kidney Health Alliance’s proposal to bring together stakeholders to advance the work of improving Organ Donation and...
Horizon Europe : towards “citizen science”
2 November 2018As illustrated by priority being given to “open research” and “open innovations” in the European Commission new EU Research Framework Programme, “Horizon Europe” aims to...
Spinning Marathon to support patients waiting for a transplant
20 October 2018On the occasion of the European Organ Donation Day, the city of Luxembourg organized a “spinning Marathon” to express support to patients waiting for a...
European Organ Donation Day: EU Commission Welcomes Rising Transplants Numbers in the EU
12 October 2018Ahead of the European Day of Organ Donation and Transplantation marked on 13 October, Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, said: ''I am...
Greener Nephrology
8 October 2018The Healthcare sector is more and more looking into reducing its negative impact on the environment. The need to produce a cultural shift to include...
Eurotransplant to Award a young researcher with the ‘Eurotrans-plant Jon van Rood Award
20 September 2018For the first time, Eurotransplant, the international collaborative platform gathering all transplant hospitals, tissue-typing laboratories and hospitals where organ donations take place in Europe, will...
