The 2025 #NephMadness logo dropped #kidneywk ajkdblog.org/2025/11/06/n...

If you're not at the #KidneyWk plenary this morning, you are missing @robcaliff.bsky.social absolutely putting people on notice about the real issues we face in US healthcare. Great speech.

Among more than 800 000 CKD-PC participants, discordance between cystatin C and creatinine eGFR values was associated with increased risk of death, cardiovascular events, and kidney failure. #KidneyWK @asnkidney.bsky.social ja.ma/4oV4DtU

And @brendonneuen.bsky.social with another simultaneous pub in @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Flozination by GFR/albuminuria #KidneyWk

REMODEL is fantastic demonstration of what we can do with collaborative effort to perform what Kathy Tuttle calls mechanistic clinical trials! Semaglutide provides kidney protection via improvements in inflammation and microvascular function. Lots of data to parse going forward. #KidneyWk

ORIGIN phase 3 trial: In an interim analysis of a clinical trial, atacicept, a fusion protein that binds and inhibits two cytokines thought to be central to the pathophysiology of IgA nephropathy, significantly reduced proteinuria. nej.md/3JEq8QL @asnkidney.bsky.social | #KidneyWk

Application for #NephSIM Nephrons are due 11/13: A 6-mo virtual program for US medical students/residents interested in learning more about #nephrology & neph careers Learn more at the #KidneyWk @kidney.org @nkf-professionals.bsky.social booth in the Exhibition Hall 🫘 nephsim.com/nephsim-neph...

Eli Lilly continuing to hit it out the park Selective amylin agonist as an alternative to GLP1RAs? #eloralintide www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... in @thelancet.com (Yeah I know it’s #KidneyWk but what do we do till Houston wakes up!) cc @rnflex.bsky.social

Is watching Independence Day while I eat take out in my room for preparation for #KidneyWk? Hell yes it is! Tomorrow, let us celebrate our Independence Day...from kidney diseases!

It's been real #ObesityWeek! Thanks for letting some nephrons share your space. Off to HOU for the start of #KidneyWk on my CKM tour!

Ummmm…

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

How do you all think ASN kidney week international attendance will be like this year? Just got an email about one of the collaborative groups. I work with having half as many as expected coming… #Tariffslawlessnessandsuch @hswapnil.medsky.social

The opening plenary at #KidneyWk looks phenomenal Renal RCT Renaissance is upon us (LBCT list drops tomorrow) www.asn-online.org/education/ki...

Okay, I have been absentee for a while now but I had to come back for this one just to see what @hswapnil.medsky.social would say! COI: strongly prejudiced against dietary restriction in almost every form #NephJC

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

ICYMI: How diet affects atherosclerosis in obesity… @aweinstock.bsky.social & team show short-term caloric restriction resolves atherosclerosis inflammation in obese mice, but weight regain accelerates its adverse effects: buff.ly/ieqwQ3O

Casey Means, the influencer who did not complete medical training but is nominated for Surgeon General, has been extremely critical of financial conflicts of interest in medicine. But she has made hundreds of thousands shilling supplements like algae & basil seed, and from investments in big tobacco

Apropos of nothing in particular, always good to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your...

It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit. You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

Nice to see new AHA HTN guidelines emphasizing albuminuria detection! "[Urine ACR] (a test that assesses kidney health) is now recommended for all patients with high blood pressure. It was recommended as an optional test in the 2017 guideline." newsroom.heart.org/news/new-hig...

New #Perspective describes key barriers to patients accessing specialized treatments for glomerular disease, including lack of access to specialized nephrology care, delays in diagnosis, and administrative and regulatory challenges. Read more in #ASNJASN: kidney.pub/JASN0819#Perspective

should we screen for CKD in the general population? Finally, flozins, finerenone and GLP1s allow a good cost-effectiveness case www.nephjc.com/news/2025/7/... for #NephJC shorts Time to stop just being dialysis-ologists and flozinate, glipinate! #NephSky

Again, the whole purpose of this madness has, from day 1, been to destroy the US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. This is just one more way to ensure that goal is achieved. “But why?” you might, rightly, ask. To which I say, pick up a history book and you’ll have your answer.

Age can play an important role in how nephrologists treat individuals with glomerular diseases. This #ASNCJASN "How I Treat" article highlights key insights: kidney.pub/CJASN0805#ASNCJASN @kdjhaveri.bsky.social

surgeon: “a good surgeon can cut. a great surgeon knows when not to cut.” *later* surgeon: “my patient needs dialysis” nephrologist: “actually, they just need more diuretics. we don’t have to do dialysis.” surgeon: “i will kill you”

Global prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is approximately 9%, and patients with CKD are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality. This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the 2024 KDIGO recommendations for managing CKD in adults. https://ja.ma/4kG8DMA

Happy to share our paper on Genomic biobanks generating Insights into Genetic Kidney Disease" (shareable link next 50 days) Biobanks + clinical data -> drug discovery, Informing risk in complex dz, clarify what we know of monogenic dz, resolving VUS kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

In 1993, Bill Clinton got a haircut on board Air Force One on a runway at LAX and it was a huge scandal even though it actually caused no delays for other planes.

We want ICE out of our Hospitals.

A 7 year (we think) Tradition in the Triangle. The annual Carolinas NKF Welcome Event. Welcoming fellows from both UNC and Duke to the area. Peds/Adult/Transplant fellows from both institutions gather before the start of fellowship each year. #NephroLife #NephForward

The fact that this isn't a bigger deal shows you that we are in a whole new world of obesity therapy. A once MONTHLY injection produces 20% weight loss in phase 2. We're barely bat an eye at 20% now, but would have been unheard of 5 years ago for medicine to produce these results.

Presented at the #ADASciSessions: The MariTide phase 2 trial of once-monthly maridebart cafraglutide, a peptide–antibody conjugate, showed substantial weight reduction in participants with obesity with or without type 2 diabetes. Full trial results: nej.md/3ZHxLeb

This is a very big scientific milestone: stem cells appear to have permanently cured most diabetics in this small but historic trial based on the work of Harvard researcher Doug Melton, who has 2 kids with diabetes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...

I would absolutely Tianenman man those tanks in DC tomorrow but who even has a briefcase anymore #NoKings

Viewpoint: JAMA should be embarrassed for legitimizing this

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

Burn it all down.

#CONFIDENCE Simultaneous publication in @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Thrilled and humbled to be named to the IM Faculty Honor Roll for teaching! It's a privilege to work with such dedicated residents at Geisinger. You inspire me every day. Super happy to receive it with my friend and collegue @alexchangmd.bsky.social !! #InternalMedicine #MedEd #Nephrology

just a reminder that the dem who ran this campaign unseated a 3x gop incumbent who had never won by less than double digits

A truly bizarre bit of news from an interview with Richard Saynor of Sandoz:

The US spends billions of dollars on binders every year We are doing the RCT to get you the answer - more than 3000 enrolled ajkdblog.org/2021/06/16/c... and www.nephjc.com/news/2021/2/...