Pegloticase Safe for Dialysis Patients With Gout Significant drop in monthly ESA dose seen after treatment, too Apr 09, 2021
Diabetic Kidney Disease Risk Stratifier Helpful Tool for PCPs Test result played into how primary care physicians managed these patients Apr 09, 2021
Metformin Well Tolerated in Polycystic Kidney Disease But next question is, will it work Apr 08, 2021
CKD Care Took a Back Seat During Pandemic Telehealth couldn't make up for lack of in-person healthcare visits Apr 08, 2021
Tepezza Restock Coming; Osteoporotic Fractures Broken Down by State News and commentary from the endocrinology world Apr 04, 2021
COVID Monoclonal Antibodies: Do They Work in Dialysis? Early data suggests efficacy but with big caveats Mar 30, 2021
Vascular Surgeon Admits Doing Unnecessary Procedures Feng Qin, MD, will pay $800,000 and be excluded from Medicare for 4 years Mar 11, 2021
Op-Ed: The Bitter Truth of USDA's Sugar Guidelines President Biden needs to "follow the science" and act now Feb 21, 2021
Dialysis Crisis in Texas: 'Catastrophic' Half of dialysis units across the state still suffering winter storm havoc Feb 18, 2021
Avacopan for ANCA Vasculitis: A New Treatment Paradigm? Remission rates not inferior to prednisone -- the "unthinkable" achieved Feb 17, 2021
Is it OK to Cut Back on Prednisone After Kidney Transplant? 15-year follow-up data support the use of early steroid cessation Feb 03, 2021
Few Qualifying Medicare Patients Undergo Parathyroidectomy Less than a third with primary hyperparathyroidism had definitive operation Jan 06, 2021
Growth Hormones in Childhood Tied to Heart Problems Later On Women, those who were small for gestational age at highest risk Dec 21, 2020
World's Deadliest Neglected Disease: Snakebite Slithers Under the Radar Pick your poison: neurotoxic or hemotoxic Nov 25, 2020
Controversial Diabetes Clinic Owner to Pay Doc $8M in Damages Decision in 9-year lawsuit paves way for injunction against diabetes clinics Nov 19, 2020
Sotagliflozin Prevents Heart Events in Acute HF, Chronic Kidney Disease Two trials show some tantalizing signals for HFpEF and stroke Nov 17, 2020
More Top Research From Kidney Week 2020 Additional studies on anemia, heart risk, and racial disparities in chronic kidney disease Oct 27, 2020
Alternating Dual-Agent Tx Offers Better Remission in Nephropathy Corticosteroid-cyclophosphamide bests sequential tacrolimus-rituximab in PMN Oct 25, 2020
Finerenone Cuts Kidney, Heart Risks in CKD and T2D Patients saw less hyperkalemia than with spironolactone but still some Oct 23, 2020
Olympic Ice Dancer's Renal Cell Carcinoma Maia Shibutani is "embracing the moment" and raising money for healthcare workers Sep 10, 2020
SGLT2 Inhibitor Wows in Chronic Kidney Disease DAPA-CKD shows fewer renal events, prolonged overall survival Aug 30, 2020
Diabetes Drugs Looking for Broad Role in COVID-19 The mechanisms check out and trials are underway Aug 24, 2020
Renal Denervation: No Rush for BP-Lowering Benefit RADIANCE-HTN SOLO data suggest a little more time for med optimization does no harm Jun 26, 2020
Ertugliflozin Tx: Safe for the Heart in Patients With T2D Phase III VERTIS-CV trial meets primary endpoint of MACE non-inferiority Jun 17, 2020
Voclosporin Beats Standard of Care in Lupus Nephritis High rates of response seen even among difficult-to-treat Hispanic patients Jun 05, 2020
Remdesivir Safety Forecast: Watch the Liver, Kidneys Data remain sparse, but a few risks are emerging May 19, 2020
Benign Kidney Tumors Shrink With mTOR Inhibitor More than 50% reduction in angiomyolipoma volume, though with "some toxicities" Apr 24, 2020
COVID-19 Hit NYC Kidney Transplant Recipients Hard Study "raises very serious concerns about the safety of transplant patients in this outbreak" Apr 24, 2020
NKF 2020: New Lupus Tx; Staying on Spironolactone, and More Research highlights from the National Kidney Foundation virtual meeting Mar 30, 2020
Phosphate Binder Type Matters in Dialysis Hospital admission rates, healthcare costs varied according to binder prescribed Mar 28, 2020
Entresto in HF Tied to Less Kidney Decline Meta-analysis shows trend favoring drug over ACE inhibitor or ARB alone Mar 27, 2020
Phase II Success for Oral CKD-Related Pruritus Agent Novel drug activates kappa opioid receptors Mar 27, 2020
CKD, Uric Acid, and Heart Disease: What's the Link? Stage 3 CKD patients with higher uric acid levels also saw worse heart health Mar 26, 2020
Organ Transplant: 'Essential' Surgery in a Time of Pandemic Centers describe the tough choices, strategies, and outcomes they're seeing Mar 26, 2020
Quit Angiotensin Meds When Kidney Function Worsens? Not So Fast Low eGFR patients were better off staying on certain medications, study finds Mar 09, 2020
With Hip Surgery, Watch for Kidney Injury Complications included infection, transfusion, revision, and death Feb 21, 2020
Vascular Changes Often Missed in Lupus Nephritis Biopsies alone don't tell the story, study suggests Jan 09, 2020
Are Low-Density Incidental Renal Masses Being Misdiagnosed? New study raises concerns about criteria for benign cysts vs aggressive renal cancer Dec 23, 2019
Muscle Relaxant Tied to Severe Confusion in CKD Patients Higher dose of baclofen associated with encephalopathy in older patients Nov 10, 2019
