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.
Advanced practitioners providers such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants play an increasingly important role in nephrology and urology practices.
Over the past decade, there has been a profound increase in diagnoses of metastatic prostate cancer.
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…
The “Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative” aims to reduce the ESRD rate by 25% by 2030.
Natural and man-made disasters have harmed individuals’ kidney health.
SARS-CoV-2 has become perhaps the most studied virus in history.
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.
While the idea of AS continues to slowly gain acceptance, most patients are easily moved toward treatment.
The answers to how clinical care was affected by the pandemic could change the practice of medicine.
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…