The Rise of Advanced Practitioners in Nephrology and Urology
Advanced practitioners providers such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants play an increasingly important role in nephrology and urology practices.
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Now Is the Time: Reconsider PSA Screening Guidelines
Over the past decade, there has been a profound increase in diagnoses of metastatic prostate cancer.
Xenotransplantation Reaches a Milestone
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
The “Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative” aims to reduce the ESRD rate by 25% by 2030.
Protecting Kidney Health in Distressing Times
Natural and man-made disasters have harmed individuals’ kidney health.
COVID-19 Research Effort Unprecedented
SARS-CoV-2 has become perhaps the most studied virus in history.
Time to End Structural Racism in Kidney Health
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?
While the idea of AS continues to slowly gain acceptance, most patients are easily moved toward treatment.
Health Care Interrupted: Research Frontiers Beckon
The answers to how clinical care was affected by the pandemic could change the practice of medicine.
Caregiver vs Care-Partner for Patients With CKD
Organizers of the 2021 World Kidney Day (WKD) on March 11, which had as its theme “Living Well with Kidney Disease,” describe the important role of “family members and other care partners”in helping patients with kidney disease. But what is the difference between a caregiver and a care-partner? A caregiver provides care for someone who…
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