The February edition of the Follow Us newsletter is NOW available. The Follow Us newsletter provides information about ERA-EDTA's activities, initiatives and people; it is also a forum for sharing anecdotes and perspectives.
On World Kidney Day we have asked the five medical disciplines which are closest to nephrology, if kidney diseases impact their specialty.
Read the interviews and you will realise that kidneys are at the “heart of health”!
FREE access to NDT online for low and medium income Countries!
Check out all the possibilities that ERA-EDTA gives to non-profit research institutions in developing nations to access critical research through the Hinari programme and Research 4 life.
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