Nancy Schuessler

Finley Needs Your Help!

Without your generous support, dogs like Finley cannot survive.

Dog Meets World

Calling all Volunteers! Give a Dog A Break

Cancer Fighter

Behind a doctor's crusade lies the memory of a patient he lost.

Fighter for Kids

A fiesty Irishwoman's spirited crusade against teenage drug addiction.

Puerto Morelos: What Mexico Once Was

Puerto Morelos - a scrappy village of perhaps 5,000 people - seems almost out of another time.

The Misery Still Haunts Me

We rescue workers were followed by grieving families begging us to search for a loved one. The Armenian earthquake left thousands of victims we were too late to reach.

A Miracle on 46th Street

Great real estate emanates from acts of faith and kindness in Hell's Kitchen.

A Question of Rights

"We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unailienable rights." But are teenagers as equal as everyone else? You have a right to know.

Nurses and Business

Occupational nursing in the United States became a career in 1888, when a young Philadelphia nurse named Betty Moulder was hired by a Pennsylvania coal mining company to care for ill and injured workers.

Writes of Passage

A look at books about women's lives.

Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Capturing your special day in photographs.

HIV and Chronic Kidney Disease

People with HIV are at increased risk for chronic kidney disease. But most people with HIV don’t know they are at risk. This brochure helps AIDS service educators explain to patients the connection between HIV and kidney disease.

Living Well with Kidney Failure: Transplant

A series of six educational patient brochures and accompanying videos in English, Spanish, and closed-captioned text. Helps you educate patients and their families about kidney failure and its treatment.

Hope Street

Promotonal video for "Living Well With Kidney Failure" A six-part video series with companion...

Living Well: How to live well with kidney failure

Living Well: Kidney Transplant

Hepatitis C: Are You At Risk

Diabetes

See the connections and risks between diabetes and kidney disease. Discover symptoms, preventions, and a number of resources that hold the answers you need.

Prevention

The National Kidney Foundation is the leading organization in the U.S. dedicated to the awareness, prevention and treatment of kidney disease for hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals, millions of patients and their families, and tens of millions of Americans at risk.

Hispanics and Kidney Disease

Hispanics are at greater risk for kidney disease and kidney failure than White Americans. In fact, Hispanics are 1½ times more likely to have kidney failure compared to other Americans. In 2010, 13% of new kidney failure patients were Hispanic. Researchers do not fully understand why Hispanics are at a higher risk for kidney disease.

Help Your Patients Connect With Each Other

Studies show that peer support helps patients cope. A new program from the National Kidney Foundation matches patients who want support with someone who has been there.

Are Your Post Transplant Patients Prepared to Take Care of Themselves ?

Two new tools from the National Kidney Foundation can help.

Benefits of Peer Support in People with Kidney Disease

Studies show that peer support helps people with kidney disease, diabetes, heart disease, depression, and numerous other health conditions.

Transplant Wait List

Dr. Vivian Tellis will answer your questions live.

Press Release

By the year 2050, human population could add 2.6 billion people, reports Rockefeller scientist Joel E. Cohen.

Coffee House Conversations

Join us for the third part of this 3-part series on diabetes.

H2 Overload: A Smartphone App

Track your fluid intake, weight, and blood pressure for your heart and kidney health. Also available from Apple store.

Screening for Diabetes: A SmartPhone App

Helps you evaluate and treat people with diabetes who are at risk for chronic kidney disease. Also available from Apple.

GFR Calculator for Estimating Kidney Function: A SmartPhone App

Estimate kidney function from your Smartphone. Also available from Apple store.

If You Need to Limit Sodium

A quick reference card to help you eat less salt.

Screening for Diabetes

Provides key information for screening and diagnosis of diabetic kidney disease.

One in Three American Adults Are At Risk for Kidney Disease

These two simple tests will help you find and treat kidney disease early in your patients, when treatment can stop kidney disease from getting worse.

Spring Will Come

Only one man can save her -- the man who has stolen her heart.

Desert Storm

She was branded by passion and betrayed by the only man she loved.

Speaker's Guide: Definition and Classification of Chronic Kidney Disease

A new PowerPoint slide presentation with speaker's notes from the National Kidney Foundation is now available.

What Is the Kidney Learning System (KLS)

We are the educational arm of the National Kidney Foundation. Here, you can learn what we do -- and who we do it for.