The Kidney Transplant Ecosystem Is Ripe for Reform Here are the policies and payment systems that need to change Oct 11, 2022
CMS' Financial Incentives Didn't Move the Dial on Home Dialysis Incentives may just not be strong enough, say some Oct 07, 2022
Salt Pills During Diuresis: Acute HF Patients Neither Helped Nor Harmed Small randomized trial challenges conventional thinking about sodium Oct 05, 2022
House Bill Would Fix Glitch in Medicare Non-Emergency Ambulance Transport Program Measure would require states to help some "dual eligibles" who have trouble accessing the benefit Sep 15, 2022
Age-Related Kidney Function Loss Differs Significantly by Gender Age- and sex-adjusted definitions of chronic kidney disease may be necessary, researchers say Aug 17, 2022
Hurricane Aftermath Deadly for Dialysis Patients Emergency planning mitigates risk from storm-related service disruptions Jul 14, 2022
Kidney Failure May Drive COVID Deaths in People With Sickle Cell Trait COVID-19 severity strongly linked with sickle cell anemia as well Jun 27, 2022
Tirzepatide Reduced Albuminuria in T2D Patients With Heart Risk Subanalysis of SURPASS-4 trial compared the GLP-1/GIP agonist against insulin glargine Jun 06, 2022
Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and CKD Face Poor COVID Outcomes Severity of kidney disease ups risk of ICU time, in-hospital mortality, and more May 15, 2022
Novel Agents Promising in Pruritus, Rare Metabolic Disease, and More A round-up of noteworthy research from the NKF Spring Clinical Meetings Apr 10, 2022
Novel Drug Cuts Proteinuria in APOL1-Mediated Kidney Disease Significant UPCR reductions in just a few weeks in phase II study Apr 10, 2022
Even With CKD, Patiromer Helped Heart Failure Patients Keep Hyperkalemia at Bay Promising findings from prespecified renal analysis of the DIAMOND trial Apr 09, 2022
Which Factors Predict Rapid Decline in Polycystic Kidney Disease? Researchers pinpointed six clinical variables predictive of rapid decline to ESRD Apr 08, 2022
Flu a Consistent Threat to ESRD Patients Those with advanced-stage kidney disease had 28% higher risk of in-hospital death Apr 08, 2022
COVID-Related AKI Chronically Hard on Kidneys More critically ill COVID patients developed CKD versus bacterial pneumonia patients Apr 08, 2022
Cost-Analysis Fuels Debate on Transplant Waitlists Without available kidneys, expense of longer lists not justified, researchers argue Mar 10, 2022
Persistent Shoulder Pain in a Dialysis Patient? Consider metastatic or ectopic calcification in diagnosing unexplained symptoms in ESRD patients Feb 07, 2022
FDA OKs First Proteinuria Drug for IgA Nephropathy Supporting trial found budesonide lowered proteinuria by 34% when added to a RAS inhibitor Dec 16, 2021
FDA Panel Shoots Down Drug for Alport Syndrome CKD Flawed trial design, safety signals turned all thumbs down for bardoxolone Dec 09, 2021
Avacopan Helps Vasculitis Patients With Renal Impairment Wean Off Steroids Patients saw better eGFR recovery compared with prednisone Nov 08, 2021
Steroids Cut Risk for Serious Renal Events in IgA Nephropathy Researcher says TESTING study findings support new KDIGO guidelines Nov 08, 2021
Injectable PH1 Therapy Also Effective in Advanced CKD Trial looked at patients with stages 3B through 5 chronic kidney disease Nov 07, 2021
More Good News for Empagliflozin in Patients With Heart Failure Slower renal function decline with SGLT-2 inhibitor in EMPEROR-Preserved trial Nov 06, 2021
Investigational Oral CKD-Anemia Agent Effective, Safe HIF-PHI daprodustat increased hemoglobin without hurting heart Nov 05, 2021
Diuretic Bolstered Blood Pressure Control in Advanced CKD But some safety signals did arise in 12-week trial Nov 05, 2021
Common Gene Variant May Predict Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes Study also suggests that one dialysate type is better for carriers Oct 20, 2021
Antibiotics Used in Dialysis Patients Linked With Sudden Cardiac Death Should floxacins stay or should they go in these patients? Oct 20, 2021
Kidney Disease No Barrier to Effient Benefit in ACS Trial analysis supports superiority over ticagrelor regardless of eGFR Aug 23, 2021
Kidney Transplant Outcomes Improved Over Past Quarter-Century Patient and graft survival rates have increased since 1996 Aug 18, 2021
SGLT2 Inhibitor Adds Years of Life to Patients With Heart Failure DAPA-HF group makes projections as long-term data are lacking Jul 28, 2021
Dexcom's CGM Interoperability Expands; Warfarin and Osteoporosis; Maine Bans PFAS News and commentary from the endocrinology world Jul 18, 2021
Safety Concerns Turn FDA Panel Thumbs Down for Novel CKD-Anemia Drug Advisory committee rejected oral anemia drug for dialysis and non-dialysis patient populations Jul 16, 2021
'Acceptable' Lead in Drinking Water May Still Be Harmful to Patients With CKD No safe amount of lead in water for those with kidney disease, researchers warn Jul 15, 2021
Best Pediatric Endocrinology Hospitals; Standards of Diabetes Care Updated News and commentary from the endocrinology world Jun 20, 2021
Farxiga Gets FDA Greenlight for CKD SGLT2 OK'd to prevent chronic kidney disease progression and cardiovascular risks Apr 30, 2021
Vadadustat Matches Standard for CKD-Related Anemia, With Caveat Jury still out on drug's heart safety, which differed depending on dialysis dependence Apr 28, 2021
NKF 2021: Skewed Transplant Waitlists; Daft Diabetes Care Other noteworthy research presented at the National Kidney Foundation's annual meeting Apr 12, 2021
Are People on Dialysis Especially Wary of the COVID-19 Vaccine? Some patients said they believed it was better to get a natural infection versus a vaccine Apr 11, 2021
Pegloticase Safe for Dialysis Patients With Gout Significant drop in monthly ESA dose seen after treatment, too Apr 09, 2021
Diabetic Kidney Disease Risk Stratifier Helpful Tool for PCPs Test result played into how primary care physicians managed these patients Apr 09, 2021
