1/10 Last #NephJC we discussed Pegcetacoplan in C3 Glomerulopathy and Immune-Complex MPGN #TenPostNephJC Given the central role of complement dysregulation in C3 glomerulonephritis, we assessed whether complement-targeted therapies confer therapeutic benefit. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

There is no better feeling than starting a brand new book!!! Bliss 😌

Christmas tv is terrible! What happened to watching exclusive/Christmas special episodes of dramas and family favourite movies?!?!

Got outsmarted by my patient today! Me: “Do you eat fruit and vegetables?” 9 year old: “Yes…chocolate” Me: “That’s not a vegetable” 🤔 9 year old: “Yes it is, cocoa beans grow on trees and trees are plants so I eat vegetables” I can’t argue with this logic! 😂

I’m an addict!!

There are scum and below them are people scamming children with cancer #medsky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sorry this is late....Emergency Departments (especially children's) feeling busy! 1) Flu after a little 'notch' is climbing again (note similar in 2023-24) 2) RSV continues to rise at similar rate but delayed than previous seasons 3) RSV admissions nearly at 2022-23 #Flu #RSV

Important link to a @jama.com collaborative meta-analysis should you need to know more about the effects of #SGLT2i on kidney, CV, mortality and hospitalization outcomes in patients with and without diabetes, and at low levels of albuminuria: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Well that was lucky! 😇 Wordle 1,620 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My Legend of Vox Machina fix has begun at last!

They released the entire first episode of The Mighty Nein for FREE on YouTube and it will be up for the weekend before the show officially premieres on November NEINteenth! Get your popcorn people, go go go! 🍿 youtu.be/Mvht2clqats?...

Happy with 4! Considering I only got 2 letters from my first 3 words Wordle 1,610 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I actually brought some of my Oreo cookies home from work! Never been in this situation before 😱. What do I do?

A normal day at work. Aston Martin F1 car outside clinic!

#SGLT2 inhibitors reduced #KidneyDisease progression, hospitalizations, and mortality in CKD, regardless of #diabetes status or albuminuria level, supporting broader use in clinical guidelines. #KidneyWK @asnkidney.bsky.social ja.ma/47ufLIG

Covid in England is definitely on the way down, but Flu is on the way up - and over a month early. My latest substack open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Friday clinics aren’t ideal…😴

Treatment in children: 👶💉 Management is based on RAS blockade, salt restriction, and blood pressure control. Glucocorticoids are used in those with persistent proteinuria or high-risk features, sometimes combined with cyclophosphamide in severe cases. #NephJC

Hypertension is an important risk factor in patients w/congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT). Read this Original Article on ambulatory blood pressure in children w/CAKUT: distinctive profiles in the cystic dysplasia subgroup. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Going in to do the 4 am ward review

'Yellow Pumpkin', Naoshima Island by Yayoi Kusama (photo by F.Bradshaw) #WomensArt #October1st

No more mandatory training. Please! 🙏🏽

Thoroughly recommend to any book lover!! An excellent twist, very gripping I could not put it down. 9.5/10 🤓 Let’s share recommendations #booksky

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🔔 Deadline: 10 Oct 🔔 We’re close to 10,000 signatures on the open letter urging the PM to make kidney disease a national health priority. Millions are affected – yet it was left out of the NHS 10-Year Plan. ✍️ Add your name today: bit.ly/4nC3BDr #KidneyHealth

Dreams do come true sometimes! Wordle 1,559 2/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I grew up learning that having a diagnosis of Huntington’s disease was basically a death sentence. Now there is hope. Medicine can be life changing!

I need therapy for my book buying addiction 😂 This is just 1 weeks worth of purchases! Help!

Too early to put the heating on? I feel cold 🥶 It is September….

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A normal word with no tricks!! Wordle 1,534 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

If you can vaccinate it should be offered to all children not just families who can afford it. Great to see this will now be included in the immunisation programme! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brown butter, hazelnut and dark chocolate madeleines! 🌰🍫 The chocolate shell looks cool but absolute buggers to get out of the tin - let’s stick to classic madeleines next time 😂

Having house plants is 10% watering and 90% moving them around to see where they ‘feel happiest’ 😂

This says it all

I think I'm in love youtube.com/shorts/OJy1Q...

Hungover, responsible for my nephew! How do parents do this?? 🤢

I have literally never used ChatGPT to do anything. Gonna start a chastity club.

Best of luck to the new resident doctors who started today. I still remember my first days very vividly! Ask for help if you need it, we have all been there and if they forget kindly remind them! #BLACKWEDNESDAY

Good morning Bluesky friends, it's a new day... @johnbcaddell.bsky.social

My whole life and existence has been consumed with growing my own veg. Who have I become?? 😂🪴🍆

I'm missing a very specific part of my brain that handles whether I took a pill or not

A normal word for once! Wordle 1,491 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A child has died after contracting measles in Liverpool, where public health officials fear a growing outbreak of the disease. Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/bb28...

Since the start of June @AlderHey says it has treated 17 children sick with measles - some have been so unwell they've been in intensive care. One child has died. The numbers have health officials worried the area is on the cusp of a major outbreak #measles

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” grist.org/biking/one-m...

Nothing better than a wee in the sea! 🌊🇮🇹

Birmingham Children’s Hospital very sadly lost one of their lovely consultants to cancer recently. His team are raising money in his memory. www.justgiving.com/page/katie-h...

Kidney coffee art - reflux nephropathy? 😂🫘