Commentary

The Rise of Advanced Practitioners in Nephrology and Urology

By

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, PhD, MPH

Publish Date September 26, 2022

Advanced practitioners providers such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants play an increasingly important role in nephrology and urology practices.

Now Is the Time: Reconsider PSA Screening Guidelines

By

Jonathan Henderson, MD

Publish Date September 23, 2022

Over the past decade, there has been a profound increase in diagnoses of metastatic prostate cancer.

Xenotransplantation Reaches a Milestone

By

Jody A. Charnow

Publish Date August 3, 2022

After decades of failed attempts at transplanting kidneys from one person to another, Joseph Murray, MD, a surgeonat the former Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, achieved success in 1954 when he transplanted a kidneybetween identical twin brothers. Reporting on their findings in Surgical Forum in 1955, Dr Murray and his coauthors noted that the…

Implications of Value-Based Models in Kidney Care

By

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, PhD, MPH

Publish Date April 8, 2022

The “Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative” aims to reduce the ESRD rate by 25% by 2030.

Protecting Kidney Health in Distressing Times

By

Natasha Persaud

Publish Date March 14, 2022

Natural and man-made disasters have harmed individuals’ kidney health.

COVID-19 Research Effort Unprecedented

By

Jody A. Charnow

Publish Date February 17, 2022

SARS-CoV-2 has become perhaps the most studied virus in history.

Time to End Structural Racism in Kidney Health

By

Kam Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD

Publish Date October 29, 2021

There is now little doubt that both the MDRD and CKD-EPI kidney function equations have contributed to structural racism in medicine and public health.

Should Active Surveillance for Cancer Be Rebranded?

By

Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS

Publish Date October 12, 2021

While the idea of AS continues to slowly gain acceptance, most patients are easily moved toward treatment.

Health Care Interrupted: Research Frontiers Beckon

By

Jody A. Charnow

Publish Date August 12, 2021

The answers to how clinical care was affected by the pandemic could change the practice of medicine.

COVID-19 Pandemic’s Effects May Provide ESKD Insights

By

Anthony Bleyer, MD

Publish Date June 2, 2021

The COVID-19 supplement of the 2020 US Renal Data System 2020 Annual Data Report provides important insights into dialysis and chronic kidney disease (CKD) during the COVID-19 pandemic.