Nephrology News

• Cardiovascular Outcomes Better With Home Hemodialysis Home hemodialysis was linked to reduced cardiovascular risks vs peritoneal dialysis in a large study, but key caveats were noted.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Heat Waves: A Silent Threat to Older Adults' Kidneys Extreme exposure to dry and hot weather conditions increased the plasma creatinine and cystatin C levels in older adults, while young adults showed minor changes.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Inappropriate NSAID Prescribing Causing Avoidable Harm Prescribing NSAIDs to people at high risk of harm from them has cost more than 6000 years of good health and £31 million for the NHS over the past decade, a study found.
  Medscape News UK, July 26, 2024
• Will Treating High Blood Pressure Curb Dementia Risk? Evidence is mixed or lacking, but experts say it makes sense to treat hypertension to lower dementia risk, particularly in middle age.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Special Diabetes Care Needed for Those With Advanced CKD Considerations for those with advanced chronic kidney disease include increased risk for hypoglycaemia, unreliability of A1c measurement, and drug therapy contraindications.
  Medscape News UK, July 23, 2024
• Acute Pancreatitis: Five Things to Know To better manage this common GI condition, clinicians should determine the cause, aim to predict disease severity, and incorporate recent landmark findings into their interventions.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• Adjusting Opioid Prescriptions After ED Can Reduce Misuse Half of patients take five or fewer tablets in the 2 weeks after leaving the emergency department for a new pain condition, data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• Ardelyx Sues US Health Department Over Kidney Disease Drug Drugmaker Ardelyx said on Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
  Reuters Health Information, July 17, 2024
• US FTC Probing DaVita, Fresenius Medical, Politico Reports The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating healthcare providers DaVita and Fresenius Medical Care over allegations that the companies have been illegally...
  Reuters Health Information, July 13, 2024
• Lower Edoxaban Dose Reduces Bleeding in Elderly Patients Dose reductions of edoxaban in patients over 80 years of age with atrial fibrillation produced a lower risk for bleeding.
  Medscape Medical News, July 11, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Careful Steroid Tapering May Not Increase SLE Flares Discontinuation of glucocorticoids in patients with remitted SLE can be flare-free if done slowly over approximately 2 years.
  Medscape Medical News, July 11, 2024
• EULAR 2024 New Gout Drugs Might Increase Patients at Target Urate Level New options in late stages of clinical testing for refractory gout promise to increase the chances of reaching the guideline uric acid target with relatively modest risks for adverse events.
  Medscape Medical News, July 09, 2024
• What Is Ultraprocessed Food, and What Are Its Effects? Two researchers recently presented data on the health risks associated with these products.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2024
• EULAR 2024 New Data Support CAR T Cells in Difficult Rheumatic Diseases Numerous cases and case series presented at EULAR 2024 add to a rapidly growing collection of evidence that CAR T-cell therapy will be a meaningful option in SLE and other rheumatic diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2024
• Most PAs Are Happy With Their Jobs Physician assistants get the most satisfaction from helping patients and feeling their gratitude.
  Medscape Medical News, July 05, 2024
• Reimagining Obesity Care for PCPs A large health system has implemented embedded obesity management into its primary care system. Could the approach work for your group?
  Medscape Medical News, July 03, 2024
• Is Elevated Lp(a) a Prescription for Aspirin? Mounting evidence suggested Lp(a) has prothrombotic properties, prompting interest in low-dose aspirin to mitigate risk. That is, if you can get tested for Lp(a).
  Medscape Medical News, July 02, 2024
• Hyponatremia Linked to Severe Adverse Outcomes in Children Mild hyponatremia affected pediatric outcomes such as vasopressor use, admissions, and mortality in emergency settings, with increased severity exacerbating adverse outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, July 01, 2024
• Chronic Kidney Disease Takes Growing Toll in Latin America The increase in the disease burden results more from premature deaths than from the disability associated with the pathology, research suggested.
  Medscape Medical News, July 01, 2024
• ADA 2024 Type 2 Diabetes Drug Class Could Benefit Teens With Type 1 The sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor dapagliflozin improved A1c and kidney function with just 1 case of mild diabetic ketoacidosis, although blood ketones increased.
  Medscape Medical News, June 27, 2024