Kidney Today Blog

On May 17, AKF hosted its annual Kidney Action Summit, connecting Ambassadors and their elected officials to discuss important legislation for the kidney commun...

On April 20, AKF hosted its first Patient Access Initiative Summit in Washington, D.C., bringing together stakeholders to discuss barriers to health care access...

On Tuesday, May 9 at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. News & World Report will host a webinar sponsored by AKF about battling health disparities in treating chronic kidney ...

Lynne Wright, a social worker from Pennsylvania, shares her experience seeing the toll polycystic kidney disease took on her husband's body and spirit.

Through her own experience with lupus and kidney disease, AKF Ambassador Della Major discovered that it's important for people with kidney disease to know ...

Welcome to our What's happening in the states blog series, where we provide monthly legislative updates on what the American Kidney Fund (AKF) is working o...

As part of our 2023 Kidney Action Week, AKF hosted a virtual Congressional briefing called Upstream Solutions to Chronic Kidney Disease: Diabetes and High Blood...

AKF celebrated the start of Kidney Month by co-hosting a Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on March 1. AKF partnered with Dialysis Patien...

AKF presented three posters at the National Kidney Foundation's Spring Clinical Meetings held on April 11-15, 2023 in Austin, Texas. The featured posters r...