iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

National Kidney Foundation

Let's Hear It for the Kidneys

Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP | Posted 05.04.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: National Kidney Month, Kidneys, World Kidney Day, Personal Health, Kidney Disease Reates, National Kidney Foundation, Kidney Month, Kidney Disease Risk, World Kidney Day March 14, Kidney Disease Prevention, Kidney Disease, Healthy Living News
Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP

This year, to recognize the organ I hold so dear, I'll be posting lots of health tips and hopefully some new-to-you information about the kidney -- what it does and how to make sure you're doing everything that you can to protect this vital organ.

Read Whole Story

A Kidney After One Day on the National Transplant Registry -- World Kidney Day Free Screenings

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 05.07.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living Health News, James O'Malley, Suzanne O'Malley, Personal Health, Health, Kidney Failure, Diabetes, Slidepollajax, World Kidney Day, Kidney Disease, Baylor Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, National Kidney Foundation, Video, Healthy Living News
Suzanne O'Malley

The story I'm about to finish here is, at the very least, a magical one. Perhaps a spiritual antidote -- if there is such a thing -- for so much lost to kidney disease.

Read Whole Story

U.S. Transplant Games Give Kidney Recipients The Chance To Compete

The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Kidney Transplant, National Kidney Foundation, Transplant Athletes, US Transplant Games, Transplant Games, Organ Transplant, Impact News

Athletes from all over the United States will gather next week in Wisconsin to compete for medals in a dozen sports, including track and field, swimmi...

Read Whole Story

Scavenging for Organs: Why the Donor Famine Justifies A Radical Harvest

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Medical Ethics, Law, Organ Donation, State Law, Norway, Iran, Liver, Legislation, Mandated Choice, Politics, Kidney Transplant, Courage, Ethics, National Kidney Foundation, Disability, Presumed Consent, Bioethics, Health Care, Medicine, State Legislatures, Illinois, Liver Transplant, Heart Transplant, Belgium, Kidney, Dale Risinger, Conservative, Pro-Life, Unos, France, Heart, Human Rights, Lung Transplant, Liberalism, Health, Great Britain, Republican, Hospitals, American Medical Association, Doctors, Spain, Healthcare, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

18 Americans die every day while waiting for an organ transplant, yet the American political establishment has been unwilling to champion non-traditional methods of expanding the organ supply.

Read Whole Story