Medscape Nephrology Podcast
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Latest medical news and features from Medscape Nephrology
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CleanWhat Socialized Medicine Is and Isn't | When it comes to national healthcare, 'open your eyes' to international models and 'be not afraid to change,' advises Dr George Lundberg. | 6/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMedical Errors in Patients With CKD: Know Your Numbers! | For patients, knowing whether their kidney function is compromised and telling their doctor about it goes a long way toward preventing medication errors and complications. | 6/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Hospital Gets Sued for Keeping a Patient Alive | Hospital clinicians who don't follow a patient's advance healthcare directive are at risk of being sued. | 6/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Diet Influences Anxiety | Dr Drew Ramsey reviews the recent literature on the link between nutrition and anxiety. | 5/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBiomarkers to Determine Who Gets Checkpoint Inhibitors | Reviewing recent research, Dr Jeffrey Weber concludes that an amalgam of host- and tumor-related markers will be the best indication of which patients should receive checkpoint inhibitors. | 4/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShould We Refuse Transplants for People With Disabilities? | Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the moral argument about when transplantation should and shouldn't be considered in people with disabilities. | 3/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEnhancing the Effectiveness of Medical Missions | Dr Wilner and Dr Loh discuss approaches to optimizing the value of medical missions through local partnership and the organization 53rd Week. | 3/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKidney Patients Left in the Wind: A Heartfelt Story | Dr Szczech provides a sobering view on what extreme actions uninsured immigrants are taking to push their symptom boundaries to near death every week in order to get emergent hemodialysis. | 3/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Primary Endpoint Is Positive: What More Do You Need? | Dr Gregg Stone reviews the questions to ask before accepting the results of a 'positive' clinical trial. | 2/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLower NOAC Doses Used Despite Lack of Data | We need large-scale observational studies of real-world patients to determine the safety and efficacy of lower doses of NOACs, says Dr Goldhaber. | 1/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEMPA-REG: Good News for Kidneys, Too | The positive effects of empagliflozin on renal disease are discussed by Dr Christoph Wanner, one of the lead authors of the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial. | 11/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean(Kid)ney Stones: A Perplexing and Growing Problem | According to Dr Tasian, the incidence of kidney stone disease in children is growing. Yet, uncertainties in diagnosis and management persist. | 10/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCKD Screening Is Not for Everyone | Screening everyone for chronic kidney disease is neither cost-efficient nor useful, says Dr Berns. | 10/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDiabetes: Confronting the 'Invisible' Disease | Eight million Americans have diabetes and don't know it. How can we persuade the public, the government, and the scientific community to focus on this invisible epidemic? | 6/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Does Dialysis Care Differ for Minority Patients? | A large study found that patients from racial minority groups were less likely to receive certain types of dialysis or to receive kidney transplants. | 2/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSPRINT: What Does It Mean for Blood Pressure Management? | Dr Amy Pollak talks to Dr William Haley of the Mayo Clinic about how to interpret the results from the SPRINT trial and why practitioners should stay tuned for further results. | 1/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOutcomes Worse in Dialysis Started Without Nephrologist Care | 'Whatever it takes,' says Dr Jeffrey Berns, we need to get patients with advanced kidney disease into the care of a nephrologist before dialysis is initiated to reduce mortality during the first year. | 1/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Call to Action to Prescribe Physical Activity | Dr JoAnn Manson urges clinicians to consider physical activity as a 'vital sign.' | 12/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPatient Advocates Emerge as Key Stakeholders | Patient advocates have emerged as sophisticated stakeholders who understand the healthcare system and are knowledgeable about pertinent scientific developments in their disease area. | 10/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEmperor's Mukherjee on the Three Laws of Medicine | Eric Topol speaks with author Siddhartha Mukherjee about his latest book, The Laws of Medicine, and how uncertainty, imperfections, priors, outliers, and biases affect these laws. | 10/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShould Nephrologists Be PCPs to Late-Stage CKD Patients? | Proposals to improve the care of patients with CKD include new payment and patient management models. | 8/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCan Brown Fat Play a Role in Weight Loss? | Could brown adipose tissue be a pharmacologic target to treat obesity? What is its role in weight loss maintenance? See Eric Ravussin's input on this topic. | 7/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStrict BP Control in CKD: Hidden Benefits? | Tight blood pressure control may not slow progression of kidney disease, but might it delay mortality? | 7/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNephrology in China: Similarities, Differences Astound | Dr Jeffrey Berns reflects on a recent trip to China where he learned first-hand about the challenges and opportunities faced by nephrologists and kidney patients there. | 6/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean'Morbid and Deadly' Drug Combinations to Avoid | Dr Jeffrey Berns reminds clinicians to be vigilant about the medications their patients take, both prescription and over-the-counter. | 5/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNew Year's Diet? One Author Has Tried Them All | From 'Living Biblically' to becoming a 'Know-It-All,' journalist and author A.J. Jacobs talks with Medscape's Eric Topol about being the subject (and punchline) of his comedic stories. | 1/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWarfarin in AF Patients on Dialysis: Worst of Both Worlds | Samuel Goldhaber describes the shocking findings of a study of warfarin use for AF prevention in patients on hemodialysis. | 12/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA 'Go-To' Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes? | Combining basal insulin with a GLP-1 inhibitor not only may produce favorable reductions in A1c values, but may also lower the risk for hypoglycemia and promote weight loss, reports Dr John Buse. | 11/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNOACs: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risk | Drs Harrington and Patel review the pros and cons of NOACs and ask why anticoagulation is underused. | 10/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean'Be Careful' When Evaluating AKI Recovery | Dr Jeffrey Berns reviews a new study that examined the level of error in evaluating recovery from acute kidney injury with estimated GFR in relation to ICU stay. | 10/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRefining Sunitinib Use Extends Survival in RCC | Dr Bernard Escudier highlights the renal cancer presentations from ESMO 2014, focusing on data on gene signatures, new uses of old drugs, and promising combinations to improve survival. | 10/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWorld War Parallels Diabetes Epidemic | EASD President Andrew Boulton reflects on how lessons learned from WWI could help address the current epidemic of diabetes. | 10/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCoffee and Type 2 Diabetes -- Drink Up? | A large new study suggests that moderate coffee consumption can lower the risk for type 2 diabetes. | 9/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean'We Can Do Better' With CKD and ESRD Patients | As he takes the reins as President of the National Kidney Foundation, Dr. Jeffrey Berns outlines ways to improve care in patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease. | 8/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAsk Patients About Recovery Time Post-dialysis | Dr. Jeffrey Berns reviews a new study that suggests clinicians can help dialysis patients by trying to reduce their recovery time after dialysis sessions. | 8/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRounding on Dialysis: Quality Over Quantity | Drs. Lynda Szczech and Donal O'Donoghue discuss studies that examined the impact of clinician visits at dialysis units on patient outcomes, sharing their own experiences and insights. | 6/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFascinating Discoveries in Type 2 Diabetes | Dr. Anne Peters talks to Dr. Guy Rutter, who has made some amazing discoveries about beta-cell function in type 2 diabetes. | 6/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIn Advanced CKD, Thiazide May Help Control BP | Dr. George Bakris interviews Dr. Rajiv Agarwal about a small study that could redeem chlorthalidone's role in controlling blood pressure in patients with moderate to advanced chronic kidney disease. | 5/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLower the Salt, and the Blood Pressure Will Follow | Dr. Weber interviews World Hypertension League President-Elect Dr. Lackland on the salt controversy. Is a shake-up of the food industry needed? | 5/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHyponatremia: Don't Miss Subtle Clinical Clues | New guidelines suggest that asymptomatic hyponatremia doesn't really exist but that clinicians can identify and treat it if they know the warning signs. Dr. Jeffrey Berns discusses. | 5/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCV Risk Calculator and Lipid Guidelines: A Bright Future | Dr. Neil Stone, lead author of the cholesterol guidelines, is feeling optimistic, given more informed discussions of their applicability and supporting data for the CV risk calculator. | 4/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanConfessions of a SYMPLICITY HTN-3 Trialist | Dr. Seth Bilazarian reflects on the negative results for renal denervation, and the need for alternatives to multiple drugs for severe hypertension. | 4/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFast-Forward 5 Years: Topol on the Future of Patient Care | What will physician and patient interactions look like in the near future? Medscape Editor-in-Chief Eric Topol, MD, talks about how technology is changing the practice of medicine. | 4/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPaying Living Donors: Could a Trial Clarify the Issues? | Dr. Jeffrey Berns talks with Dr. Peter Reese about the benefits of conducting a trial with paid kidney donors to help sort out the ethical issues involved. | 3/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEarly Nephrology Referral Key to Dialysis Decision | Drs. Donal O'Donoghue and Lynda Szczech discuss the new guidelines issued by the Canadian Society of Nephrology, which encourage an individualized approach to dialysis initiation. | 3/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBerwick on CMS, Death Panels, and His Run for Governor | Donald Berwick talks with Eric Topol about his decades-long career with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, his tenure as Director of CMS, and why he's running for governor of Massachusetts. | 2/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanACE + ARB = Adverse Events | If you have any patients on both an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and an angiotensin receptor blocker, you probably should discontinue one of those medications, says Dr. Jeffrey Berns. | 12/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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