Respect for the Placebo Effect
The placebo is an integral part of clinical research, helping investigators arrive at the true effect of an experimental treatment.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Targeted Therapies Include Targeted Surgery
The term “targeted therapy” has entered the oncologic lexicon over the past five years, with primary applications in medical and radiation oncology.
How to Control BP in Dialysis Patients
The characteristics of hypertension in hemodialysis patients differ from those in the general population. In dialysis patients, accelerated age-related changes in vascular stiffness, combined with factors peculiar to uremia, contribute to a loss of large and small vessel distensibility.
Meeting Size Doesn’t Matter
Renal & Urology News provides news coverage of about two dozen national and international meetings annually. Some of these meetings are a lot smaller than the annual meetings of the American Society of Nephrology and American Urological Society, but that does not mean we take them less seriously from a news standpoint.
New Surgical Options for BPH Must Measure Up
The past two decades have witnessed the introduction a dizzying array of minimally-invasive surgical alternatives to the gold standard treatments for BPH—transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) and the open simple prostatectomy.
Anecdotes, Outcomes, and Evidence-Based Medicine
Go to a grand rounds or medical conference and listen. What do you hear? In most discussions of patient care, clinicians relate compelling anecdotes typically beginning with “I once had a patient who…” Fill in the blank.
Kidney Bone Disease Field Heats Up
Nephrologists have been well aware that renal osteodystrophy, also known as kidney bone disease, is a common complication of advanced CKD (stages 3 to 5).
Anemia Studies Not the Final Word
The recent publication of the CHOIR and CREATE studies in the New England Journal of Medicine questioning hemoglobin targets in dialysis patients have resulted in intense scrutiny of the relationship between Amgen, dialysis organizations, and physicians in the management of anemia.
No Borders for Pathogens
For centuries, human beings have spread diseases long distances through their travels. Yellow fever and the mosquitoes that transmit it, for instance, are thought to have originated in Africa and been introduced to the New World by slave ships in the 1500s. The 1918 influenza pandemic illustrates how contagious diseases can spread throughout the world.
Going Beyond Machines
Most patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are consigned to life on dialysis. Most undergo in-center hemodialysis three times a week, greatly diminishing their quality of life.
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