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ASN Kidney Week is the world’s premier nephrology meeting with more than 12,000 kidney professionals from across the globe expected to attend the 2024 event. ASN Kidney Week provides participants exciting and challenging opportunities to exchange knowledge, learn the latest scientific and medical advances, and listen to engaging and ...
The ASN holds annual meetings (Kidney Week) [7] and subsequent regional meetings (ASN Highlights) [8] to discuss new developments in the field of nephrology. The ASN also provides an Annual Board Review Course & Update [ 9 ] and other online learning opportunities for both established nephrologists and those in training.
[2] [3] The purpose of the Advancing American Kidney Health initiative was to improve this situation and thereby reduce healthcare costs [4] by encouraging preventive modes of care, creating incentives to increase the proportion of home dialysis treatment and making kidney transplants available to more patients.
In 1972 the United States Congress passed legislation authorizing the End Stage Renal Disease Program (ESRD) under Medicare. Section 299I of Public Law 92-603, passed on October 30, 1972, extended Medicare coverage to Americans if they had stage five chronic kidney disease (CKD) and were otherwise qualified under Medicare's work history ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) – announced the company will present a variety of new data from its felzartamab clinical development program at Kidney Week 2024, the American Society of Nephrology’s (ASN) annual meeting, taking place October 23-27 in San Diego, California. Felzartamab, an ...
The American Kidney Fund's grant programs help low-income dialysis patients to access health care, including dialysis and transplantation. AKF provides grants that help with health insurance premiums and other treatment necessities not covered by health insurance, such as transportation to dialysis, nutritional products and emergency assistance.
Ian Allen for Men’s Health Former NBA player Nate Robinson is hoping for a miracle as he continues to search for a kidney donor. Ever since his kidneys failed in 2018, the 40-year-old athlete ...
Nephrology (from Ancient Greek nephros 'kidney' and -logy 'the study of') is a specialty for both adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kidney health, and the treatment of kidney disease, from diet and medication to renal ...