April 28 marks AMKD Awareness Day, highlighting the urgent need for communities—especially those of African ancestry—to understand their risk for APOL1-mediated kidney disease. (Photo Credit: Unsplash ...

(Family Features) A genetic condition that can cause kidney failure, APOL1-mediated kidney disease (AMKD) represents a group of kidney diseases associated with mutations (changes or variants) in the ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Kidney Fund (AKF) is proud to announce that April 30, 2024 will mark the nation’s first ever AMKD Awareness Day. Building on AKF’s ...

New Orleans — A public-private project, the Early Measures in Black and African-American Communities to Raise Kidney Disease (EMBARK) Awareness initiative, is helping to identify people at high risk ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today the American Kidney Fund (AKF) announces the second annual APOL1-Mediated Kidney Disease (AMKD) Awareness Day, a day to educate communities ...

In the summer of 2008, with only two weeks left before returning home from a visiting Fulbright professorship in Japan, I made a doctor’s appointment for a checkup to take advantage of that nation’s ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today marks the third annual APOL1-Mediated Kidney Disease (AMKD) Awareness Day, a day established by the American Kidney Fund (AKF) to encourage ...