Kidney Today Blog

"As things begin to reopen and more and more people are resuming normal life, I am reminded that my body is not like others. I know that I have to trust my...

LaVarne Burton, American Kidney Fund President and CEO, participated in The Atlantic Health Summit in a panel discussion on "The Power of Patient Advocacy....

AKF Ambassador Nichole received the call letting her know a kidney was available for her right in the middle of the first wave of COVID-19. She reflected on the...

As part of the American Kidney Fund's (AKF) Kidney Action Week earlier this month, our government relations team hosted a virtual Congressional briefing wi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light what we in the kidney community already know: Non-medical social determinants of health lead to decreased health outc...

AKF Ambassador Ken Sutha is a pediatric nephrologist and two-time kidney transplant recipient. He also received some of the earliest doses of the COVID-19 vacci...

In 2008, Anthony DeGuilio donated his kidney to Barbara Asofsky, a woman he had never met, in the first paired organ exchange New York and the second ever in th...

LeighAnn's husband received a kidney transplant in 2011 and he has been living a pretty normal life since the surgery. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit th...

Health coverage is a necessity for people with kidney disease, but COVID-19 layoffs and cuts to salaries and working hours mean millions of Americans no longer ...