Commentary

World Kidney Day 2021: Living Well With Kidney Disease

By

World Kidney Day Steering Committee

Publish Date February 17, 2021

The World Kidney Day Steering Committee has declared 2021 the year of “Living Well with Kidney Disease”.

The Pandemic: Urgency Again Propels Medical Research Into the Real World

By

Jody A. Charnow

Publish Date January 21, 2021

Strong motivation often provides the push to translate investigational technologies into real-world clinical use. Case in point: messenger RNA vaccines.

Time to Say Goodbye to the DRE for Prostate Cancer Screening

By

Justin Dubin, MD

Sanoj Punnen, MD, MAS

Publish Date January 12, 2021

With the advent of more reliable and accurate ways to screen for prostate cancer, such as PSA testing and prostate MRI, the authors argue that it is time to stop the “antiquated practice” of the digital rectal examination.

Dialysis Is Not Going Away Anytime Soon

By

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, PhD, MPH

Publish Date December 9, 2020

Dialysis is not likely to become obsolete despite advances — and nephrology goes way beyond renal replacement therapy.

Zoom Medicine: An Apt Metaphor in 2020

By

Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS

Publish Date October 5, 2020

The practice of medicine is to the life sciences what finance and economics are to the mathematical disciplines. Both are wedged between STEM subjects and the humanities requiring skills emanating from both the right and left brain. Read any student’s application to medical school or residency program as they explain why medicine’s intersection of science…

The Rise of Prostate Cancer Genetic Testing

By

Jody A. Charnow

Publish Date August 7, 2020

Use of PCa genetic testing to stratify risk and guide screening and management continues to gain momentum.

Expanding Options for Kidney Failure Patients

By

Natasha Persaud

Publish Date July 13, 2020

Gradual transition to dialysis and palliative dialysis should be alternatives offered to patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, according to an editorial.

Race ‘Correction’ in Clinical Algorithms Needs Re-examination

By

Natasha Persaud

Publish Date June 18, 2020

Clinicians should consider whether a race correction will relieve or exacerbate inequities, according to editorialists.

The COVID-19 Pandemic Proves the World Is Small

By

Jody Charnow

Publish Date June 11, 2020

The rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID- 19) caught the world by surprise. Whatever becomes the new normal, the United States will be a different country from what it was on March 13, when President Donald J. Trump declared a national emergency. At this writing on May 28, more than 100,000 people in the…

Ode to Burton ‘Bud’ Rose, MD

By

Anthony J. Bleyer, MD

Publish Date May 19, 2020

Like many of my colleagues, I was very saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Burton “Bud” Rose on April 24, 2020 at the age of 77 years. There were two important sides of Dr Rose:  First, he was well known in the nephrology community as an extremely modest, brilliant nephrologist who published 2…