End-Stage Renal Disease Perspective

• Why I Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccination to All My Patients   New age-based hepatitis B vaccine recommendations and available vaccine products are reviewed by Dr Sandra Fryhofer.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 03, 2022
• Strangers Donating Kidneys: 'Important Contributions' Kidney donations from strangers have been increasing, but there is still need for more. Dr Divyanshu Malhotra reviews current programs and offers ways to increase 'Good Samaritan' donations.
  Medscape Nephrology, April 29, 2022
• ISN 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ISN 2022
  Medscape Nephrology, February 28, 2022
• Organ Transplantation: Unvaccinated Need Not Apply Outrage over the denial of transplant organs to the unvaccinated is an opportunity to educate people on the complexities of organ allocation, writes Melissa Walton-Shirley, channeling her inner Ted Lasso.
  theheart.org on Medscape, February 10, 2022
• Should We Always Offer CPR? The case of an elderly unconscious patient prompts this doctor to question why CPR is the default strategy and brings to mind the hero of a Hemingway short story.
  theheart.org on Medscape, January 25, 2022
• Racial Inequities in Offering New Technologies for Diabetes Dr Plotzker discusses inequities in prescribing advanced technology for patients with diabetes, noting that Black patients are least likely to have access and use these devices.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, January 19, 2022
• How a Low-Protein Diet Can Delay Dialysis The low-protein PLADO diet can boost the effects of medications and help preserve renal function.
  Medscape Nephrology, November 05, 2021
• Optimal Use of SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP-1 Agonists In light of the vast benefits demonstrated by SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 agonists, Dr Matthew Budoff highlights how cardiologists and preventive care physicians can optimize their use in patient care.
  American College of Cardiology & Medscape , October 18, 2021
• ERA-EDTA 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ERA-EDTA 2021
  Medscape Nephrology, June 07, 2021
• Palliative Care Update for Clinicians Timely initiation of palliative care services is a challenge, especially for those with noncancer diagnoses, but recent studies offer novel approaches to end-of-life care planning across settings.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 17, 2021
• ISN 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ISN 2021
  Medscape Nephrology, April 20, 2021
• Organ Harvesting's Troubled Past — and Complicated Present With the rise of organ transplantation came difficult ethical questions on race, economics, and the meaning of life.
  Undark, April 15, 2021
• NKF 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from the virtual NKF 2021 Spring Clinical Meetings
  Medscape Nephrology, April 01, 2021
• SGLT2 Inhibitors in T1D: 'People Are Using Them Now'   Dr Anne Peters talks about what you need to know regarding off-label use of SGLT2 inhibitors in type 1 diabetes.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, March 30, 2021
• What You Don't Know About Beta-Blockers and Hemodialysis A new look at the literature turned up a finding that surprised this nephrologist.
  Medscape Nephrology, March 18, 2021
• Lawsuit: Doctor Leaked Private Information to Patient's Family Treating patients from the same family who live together can raise your risk for privacy violations.
  Cooperative of American Physicians, March 08, 2021
• Does Oxygenated Cold Perfusate Improve Transplant Outcomes? If ischemia is a barrier to organ preservation, will the addition of oxygen to cold preservation solutions improve renal transplant outcomes?
  Medscape Nephrology, January 28, 2021
• Which Antidiabetic Drug Class is Most Renoprotective? In a clash of the antidiabetic drug titans, which class demonstrates the most renoprotection?
  Medscape Nephrology, December 02, 2020
• ESC 2020 DAPA-CKD: SGLT2 Inhibitors 'The Beta-Blockers for the Kidneys'   Nephrologists Jennie Lin and Leslie Gewin discuss the effects of dapagliflozin in patients with CKD. How do the DAPA-CKD findings fit with the CREDENCE data on SGLT2 inhibitors?
  Medscape Nephrology, September 04, 2020
• The Kidney and COVID-19: What We Know so Far   Nephrologists Matthew Sparks and Samira Farouk, of the Freely Filtered podcast, discuss the kidney effects of COVID-19 -- what is and isn't clear in patients with and without preexisting kidney disease.
  Medscape Nephrology, August 10, 2020