In patients with myocardial infarction and anemia, a liberal red blood cell transfusion strategy showed no significant difference in quality of life outcomes compared to a restrictive strategy 30 days post-randomization. #ISBTMilan https://ja.ma/4kxUv8P

1. Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths worldwide, claiming over 7 million lives each year. #WorldNoTobaccoDay #TobaccoExposed

Fascinating story. Aside from environmental exposures, high temperature and dehydration are posited as a potential culprit. www.dw.com/en/high-rate...

Congratulations to our research fellow, Dr. Meghana Eswarappa, for being featured in today's ASN IN the Loop! journals.lww.com/cjasn/abstra...

In their own words, protesters, police, Gov. Tim Walz and neighbors chronicle the upheaval that shook the city and spread across the globe after George Floyd was murdered. www.startribune.com/george-floyd...

🌍 History made! For the first time, kidney care is on the global health agenda. #WHA78 adopted a landmark resolution recognizing kidney health in the fight against #NCDs. 👏 Thanks to Guatemala and the global kidney community for making this possible! #KidneyHealthMatters

Call for Applications: The ‪@kidney.org‬ is seeking applications for the next Editor-in-Chief of AJKD. Submit a 2-page Letter of Intent and a CV by July 15, 2025. Details: bit.ly/AJKDEIC @nkf-professionals.bsky.social‬

TC Bear is taking a bath in the rain

As independent editorials go, this one is nicely constructed and somewhat persuasive. www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...

Sad. Payer mix seems to have doomed the operation. www.ksn.com/news/state-r...

In talks and in our online course thebullshitmachines.com, I worry about how the extremely high cost of training LLMs concentrates power in the hands of the very few to shape our information environment. Grok going off the rails with talk of White Genocide is a striking example.

I would like to thank Maarten Naesens, MD for the opportunity to write my position statement on where the field of transplantation needs to shift to. Now is the time to improve quality and participation of life after transplant. bit.ly/4jQToAP #openaccess

Sitting in the Dirksen hearing room ahead of RFK Jr.'s testimony to the Senate HELP Committee about the HHS budget. Follow along

Scotland is high on incremental hemodialysis. You can read all about it if you scroll to the middle of the article, @hswapnil.medsky.social. www.gov.scot/publications...

New documentary produced by ANNA. Extremely nicely done. In addition, PD is prominently featured! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mFO...

I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

I made the same point in a KI Reports paper a few years ago: erythropoietin resistance index (ERI) looks like a novel metric, but really, it provides no better risk discrimination than ESA dose itself. Big ESA dose = higher risk of MACE. journals.lww.com/kidney360/ab...

Spin aside, it looks like no association. Disappointing, a little surprising, etc. Also non-randomized. So who knows? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The title hooked me! But to be clear, studies like this make a *mockery* of observational research about home dialysis. www.ejinme.com/article/S095...

Well, that's quite a stratification! www.kireports.org/article/S246...

Orphan drug status (by EMA) for potential IgAN agent purespringtx.com/purespring-t...

This helped me understand Medicaid provider taxes.

An interesting observation tucked into this press release is that Renibus has acquired veverimer. What valor! I love when molecules are rescued from the scrap heap. www.renibus.com/renibus-ther...

Acute effects impact the Clinical Endpoint (CE) independently of treatment effects on the chronic slope and support the three-year total slope as the primary slope-based outcome in randomized trials. bit.ly/CJASN0662 #ASNCJASN @jf60.bsky.social

The illegal kidney transplant trade continues Now centered in Kenya, with donors from Africa, Azerbaijan and elsewhere Recipients from Western Europe, Russia, and other places www.spiegel.de/internationa... With an Indian in the center #NephSky #PublicHealth h/t @jbrianbyrd.bsky.social

So there is still room to grow, per data from 2023. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I feel like I'm being trolled by this analysis. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🚨New Study in Annals🚨 GLP1ra & SGLT2i are the only diabetes meds that reduce heart attacks & death But can't work if can't prescribe TLDR 40% Medicaid enrollees have restricted access to GLP1 & 25% to SGLT2i much state/plan variability GLP access plateaued in '22 bit.ly/3Y72K2z

The health equity incentive in ETC had 2 parts, the more important of which was a lowering of achievement quantiles for dialysis facilities in which at least 50% of eligible patients were impoverished (Medicaid or low-income subsidy). www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

"Prescript peritoneal dialysis: Patterns of iron prescribing in peritoneal dialysis" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Shot

Impressive. Efficacy of Baloxavir Treatment in Preventing Transmission of Influenza | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

AE report data from Japan, so all the requisite cautions. Nevertheless, reporting odds ratio of 6.7 for thrombotic and embolic events wit HIF-PHIs, and a signal that was greater in non-dialysis than in dialysis. You don't say. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40264439/

Look what is Number 1: semaglutide. Look what is Number 2: tirzepatide. academic.oup.com/ajhp/advance...

Neat approach to evergreen subject matter. It is behind a paywall, though. Ten things I wish I knew as a new peritoneal dialysis nurse journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

No controversies conference I am afraid.

"...despite [the Peritoneal Dialysis Patient Home Management Pilot Project], the share of peritoneal dialysis in Korea has declined from 6.8 percent in 2019 to 5.4 percent in 2021 and further to 4.5 percent in 2023." www.koreabiomed.com/news/article...

An interesting perspective. As a credentialed epidemiologist (i.e. a bloodhound for treatment effect heterogeneity), I feel compelled to agree! www.renalandurologynews.com/features/kid...

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Montgomery, the renowned surgeon who revolutionized organ transplantation, for being honored as one of the most influential people of 2025 by @time.com. Our very own @ceoatnkf.bsky.social wrote the tribute! #TIME100

Former USPSTF Members Ask HHS for Protection www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

We are getting closer and closer to @kidneycon.bsky.social 2025! Top notch speakers, exciting topics. A couple of outstanding workshops to highlight today: Home Dialysis and Comparative Physiology, yes, for the #NephMadness Animal Region 🦎 lovers and Channel Your Enthusiasm podcast listeners 🎙️

Alex, thanks so much for highlighting AKHOMM's work! We have created 2 free CME/CE modules for physicians, nurses and pharmacists that give an update on use of eGFR for medication-related decision-making. www.kidneymedicationmanagement.org #NKF #KidneyHealth #NephTwitter #TwitteRx #AKHOMM

Serum Na and PD outcomes. Big cohort. Associations Between Serum Sodium, Peritoneal Dialysis–Associated Peritonitis, and Mortality in the Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS) - American Journal of Kidney Diseases www.ajkd.org/article/S027...

Oz is a character, but what I notice is the closing statement by an unnamed CMS staffer: “We deal with dying people.” I deal with people with kidney failure, the majority of whom are enrolled in Medicare, and this is not my mindset, even when considering policy. www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-...

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Last fall, Blue Cross got hit with a $421 million verdict after jurors found it defrauded doctors. It was one of the biggest verdicts ever outside a class action - and it revealed the inner workings of how insurers block payments. My latest. www.propublica.org/article/blue...

This FDA office enabled all of the first time generic drug approvals in the U.S. Their work helped substantially lower drug costs and increase competition during President Trump’s first term, including spearheading approval of the first generic EpiPen in 2018. This office has now been eliminated

At NKF SCM on Thursday, my colleague, Mollie Horn, delivered an excellent oral presentation about our work to make "PD-to-HHD" a reality in DaVita clinics. This transition has been discussed for years, but outside of single centers, the event has never made the leap from "rare" to "repeatable."