A surge in chronic kidney disease is alarming health officials in Nigeria. The number of patients needing dialysis and transplants is unusually high, and the cause remains unknown, DW's Christine Mhun...

study within the Veterans Health Administration included adults with an ADPKD diagnosis code who initiated SGLT2i between January 2017 and May 2023. Repeated measures models were used to evaluate eGFR...

Protesters, police, Gov. Tim Walz and neighbors chronicle the upheaval that changed Minneapolis and spread across the world.

The American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) has been under the leadership of Dr Harold I. Feldman for two terms, and it is time to begin the search for the next Editor-in-Chief. As Dr Feldman…

As a kidney donor, I'm asking Rep. Gwen Moore to lend her voice and advocate for End Kidney Deaths Act that could save thousands of lives.

In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.

The first successful kidney transplant in December 1954 between the Herrick brothers ushered in a new field of medicine. Over the almost seventy years, tho...

The Realistic Medicine Casebook shows how teams across Scotland are putting Realistic Medicine into practice. It’s a practical guide offering inspiration and support for those adopting its principles ...

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thods: ASCEND-D (NCT02879305), a large event-driven cardiovascular outcomes trial, randomized 2,964 patients receiving maintenance dialysis to either daprodustat or conventional ESAs. All patients r...

Background Primary care physician-nephrologist collaboration plays an important role in the management of chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, the benefits of such collaboration in patients with sta...

Home haemodialysis (HD) offers several advantages over conventional in-centre 3-times-weekly HD which have been summarised in recent reviews [1,2]. Among them are better preservation of health-related...

In the United States (US), deceased donor kidney offers are most commonly declined by transplant centers on behalf of waitlisted candidates, without notifying them. We sought to understand patient and...

Haseeb Ahmad brings over 25 years of leadership experience in life sciences, most recently serving as President of Novartis Europe and will lead the Company as it advances pioneering kidney disease pr...

Renibus Therapeutics Announces Completion of Enrollment in PROTECT, a Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trial of RBT-1 to Reduce the Risk of Post-Operative Complications After Cardiac Surgery - Topline result...

Germans in need of new kidneys are heading to Kenya to buy one. The donors are frequently suffering from bitter poverty. Behind the scheme is an Israeli whom the authorities have been after for years.

Adoption of novel therapeutics often lags for Black versus non-Hispanic White patients. Seminal clinical trials established the cardiovascular efficac…

This cohort study compares the cardiovascular-related morbidity and mortality risks among patients with type 2 diabetes treated with glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA) and thiazolidine...

Background: Sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) are the only type 2 diabetes medications that reduce cardiovascular disease an...

A CMS health-equity incentive for dialysis facilities reduced financial penalties for facilities that serve patients with more social risk factors but did not narrow disparities in clinical outcomes.

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Baloxavir marboxil (baloxavir) rapidly reduces influenza virus shedding, which suggests that it may reduce transmission. Studies of treatment with neuraminidase inhibitors have not shown sufficient...

Attention to embolic and thrombotic events associated with HIF-PHIs is essential, with careful selection of specific types based on underlying diseases, sex, age, and indications.

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Among the two types of dialysis, peritoneal dialysis—a treatment for end-stage renal disease, which is rapidly increasing in Korea and worldwide—is just as effective as hemodialysis but comes with a l...

A nephrologist argues that advancing kidney care in the US requires tailored guidelines addressing ethnic diversity & fragmented healthcare.

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AKHOMM is engaging pharmacists and key stakeholders to develop partnerships for optimal medication management in persons with chronic kidney disease to improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare co...

The clinical consequences of hyponatremia among patients receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD) are poorly understood. This study sought to evaluate the association of variations in serum sodium with peri...

Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

The FDA Reduction-in-Force (Termination)—or “RIF(T)”—announced last week has resulted in countless stories in the press and on personal LinkedIn accounts from those RIF’d.  As the dust begins to se…