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• When Should Those With End-Stage Kidney Disease Forego Dialysis? Australia and the UK have long had programs whereby some elderly patients with end-stage kidney disease, or those with many comorbidities, opt to forego dialysis, but the US has lagged behind.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• How to Manage Drug Interactions With Paxlovid for COVID Some drugs can be held or reduced for the 5-day course. IDSA has published an online guide. Availability in pharmacies has greatly increased in recent weeks.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Best & Worst Places to Practice 2022 Some states offer lots of perks and temptations for physician practices, although each doctor has their own priorities that make some places more desirable.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 20, 2022
• How a Separation Agreement Could Save Your Career Even if you're not planning to leave your job, it's wise to lock in a separation agreement; it can affect your future career.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain   Pain is central to every specialty, and we all played a part in the opioid crisis, says Dr Haider Warraich, author of The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain.
  Medscape, May 20, 2022
• Drinking More Coffee May Reduce Acute Kidney Injury Risk Increased consumption of coffee may reduce the risk of developing acute kidney injury, reports a prospective cohort study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Patients' Bad Behavior Provokes Burnout in Physicians: Study Mistreatment and discrimination by patients increase the risk of physician burnout; for 1 in 5 physicians, patients refused care because of the physician's appearance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Cholesterol and CVD Events in Kidney Transplant Recipients Learn more about the potential association between remnant cholesterol and cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality outcomes among individuals who had a kidney transplant.
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, May 18, 2022
• Black Veterans Report Stress When Receiving Kidney Care New research suggests that racism in the hospital setting created emotional and physical stress for Black veterans with chronic kidney illness as well as a high level of skepticism toward medicine.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Writing Out Common Medical Terms Boosts Patient Knowledge: Study Research published in JAMA Network Open shows that patients are more likely to understand their health conditions when healthcare providers avoid abbreviations and acronyms in written communications.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete? The white coat has been the traditional physician garb. But since the pandemic, more have been wearing scrubs or more casual clothing. What's best for physicians to wear?
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Can Fecal Transplants Help Reverse Aging? New research provides 'tantalizing' evidence for the direct involvement of gut microbes in aging and the possibility of gut microbe-based anti-aging therapies.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• The Case for Post-COVID Steroids   Dr F. Perry Wilson cautions against changing practice on the basis of a single study.
  Medscape, May 12, 2022
• What Are Common Misconceptions About Nurses? Nurses nationwide recently expressed outrage after Bravo talk show host Andy Cohen commented about the attractiveness of a nurse-actress on his show. Do you confront misconceptions about your role?
  Medscape Reader Polls, May 10, 2022
• Optimal Patient Selection for Heart-Kidney Transplant A decision-analytic model identifies the costs and benefits of simultaneous heart-kidney transplant compared with single-organ transplant with a safety net strategy.
  American Journal of Transplantation, May 10, 2022
• Can Individualized Care for Kidney Disease in HIV Improve Outcomes? A need for dose adjustments and the possibility of drug-drug interactions have been identified in a study of advanced kidney disease in persons living with HIV.
  Medscape Medical News, May 09, 2022
• HBCU Medical Schools to Tackle Organ Transplant Disparities The collaboration follows a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report that found significant disparities in the nation's organ transplant system.
  Associated Press, May 05, 2022
• Alarming Global Rise in Pediatric Hepatitis: Expert Q&A Pediatric hepatologist Dr William Balistreri shares his insights on the mysterious, possibly adenovirus-related outbreak.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 05, 2022
• Hands-on for HF: New Considerations for Cardiac Rehab   Drs Daniel Forman and Gordon Reeves discuss how the REHAB-HF trial results inform potential new directions in exercise training for both HFpEF and HFrEF patients that may be beneficial.
  American College of Cardiology & Medscape , May 05, 2022
• Porcine Virus a Suspect in Man's Death After Pig Heart Transplant 'We are beginning to learn why he passed on,' said a surgeon when revealing a porcine virus hiding in the pig heart transplanted to David Bennett might be implicated in his death 2 months later.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022