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Chronic diseases, one of the priorities of the European Commission’s Health Work Programme for 2016
2 March 2016On the 1st of March, the European Commission published the 2016 Annual Work Plan under EU Health Programme 2014-2020, in which Chronic Diseases are amongst the key...
EKHA joins EU Presidency Conference to agree guidance on reducing salt, sugar and fat in foods
24 February 2016Reformulating foods to reduce salt and sugar, therefore making the healthy food choice, the easy choice, in order to reduce the burden of chronic diseases...
EKHA on Twitter
24 February 2016EKHA has recently joined the social media Twitter to advocate for kidney health and participate to the overall discussions on health issues at EU level online....
2016 European Kidney Forum
24 February 2016Hosted by the MEP Group for Kidney Health, the 2016 edition of the European Kidney Forum "Moving from Disease Care to Health Care - A paradigm...
Increasing living kidney donation in the Netherlands
24 February 2016The Dutch Kidney Foundation and the Dutch Kidney Patient Association have launched a joint initiative to inform and support potential living kidney donors and kidney...
Priorities for a European policy on multimorbidity
23 February 2016Multi-morbidity – the co-occurrence of at least two chronic conditions in one person - is affecting an increasing number of European citizens. As it is...
World first kidney transplant using 3D printing performed in Northern Ireland
20 February 20163D printing has been used for the first time in the world to support kidney transplant surgery between an adult donor and a child recipient,...
Better managing patients with CKD and increasing awareness of kidney disease: the Austrian 60/20 program
20 February 2016The Austrian Society of Nephrology (ÖGN) has just launched the 60/20 program, with the aim of increasing awareness of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and improving...
European Cancer community united on World Cancer Day
10 February 2016From 1st to 5th of February, the Brussels cancer community - Cancer Research UK, the Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL), the European Society for...
Wales switches to ‘opt-out’ system for organ donation
2 December 2015With the aim of addressing the shortage of donors in Europe, a national law establishing the principle of “presumed consent” for organ donation came into...
