Nephrology News

• New Health Cybersecurity Rule: What Docs Should Know A proposed federal rule would require hospitals and physicians’ groups to beef up health cybersecurity measures to protect patient privacy and prevent ransomware attacks. Some changes could be expensive, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Intensive BP Control May Benefit CKD Patients in Real World Intensive blood pressure control in patients with chronic kidney disease showed cardiovascular benefits in real-world settings similar to those observed in the SPRINT.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round? Have sobering studies on alcohol caused physicians to drink less themselves or changed the way doctors counsel patients on booze? The answer is complicated.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Kidney Transplant Program Drops Patient Notification Rule The CMS finalized its kidney transplant program designed to increase kidney transplants but dropped a rule requiring centers notify patients of kidneys declined on their behalf.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Gastro Issues Common Symptom Cluster Tied to Kidney Failure Common symptom clusters in kidney failure included gastrointestinal problems, neuromuscular symptoms, and sexual concerns, showed a systematic review.
  Medscape Medical News, January 03, 2025
• Exercising Longer May Boost Weight Loss, Meta-Analysis Shows Adults who were obese and exercised more than 150 min/wk at moderate intensity or higher experienced clinically important reductions in adiposity.
  Medscape Medical News, January 02, 2025
• 10 Kidney Transplants in 2 Days: Coordination Matters Vanderbilt University Medical Center rose to the challenge of performing 10 kidney transplants over a holiday weekend.
  Medscape Medical News, December 31, 2024
• Sotagliflozin Not Approved as Type 1 Diabetes Add-On The US Food and Drug Administration declined to approve the drug for people with type 1 diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
  Medscape Medical News, December 30, 2024
• COVID-19 Takes a Greater Toll on Kidneys Than Pneumonia A cohort study identified a link between COVID-19 and a faster decline in kidney function, especially following hospitalization, in contrast to pneumonia.
  Medscape Medical News, December 26, 2024
• Adverse Events Risk Differs Among Men and Women With MASLD Serious liver and nonliver outcomes linked to metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease were different between men and women, according to the first known study to examine this topic.
  Medscape Medical News, December 26, 2024
• Potassium Nitrate Fails to Boost Exercise Capacity in HFpEF The administration of potassium nitrate did not improve aerobic exercise capacity, total work, or quality of life among patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
  Medscape Medical News, December 24, 2024
• FDA Adds Black Box Warning for Liver Injury to Fezolinetant Updated prescribing information increases frequency of blood testing.
  Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2024
• Lowering Urate May Protect Kidneys in Gout Patients With CKD Lowering urate levels with urate-lowering therapy was not associated with an increased risk for severe or end-stage kidney disease in patients with gout and chronic kidney disease stage III.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2024
• AI Has Entered the Med School Building As artificial intelligence becomes ubiquitous, medical schools are determining how to best incorporate it into curriculum.
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2024
• First-Line ULT for Gout: Is a Mechanism-Based Approach Best? Two gout experts debated whether first-line urate-lowering therapy should consist of a xanthine oxidase inhibitor or should instead be tailored to the mechanism of a patient’s hyperuricemia.
  Medscape Medical News, December 17, 2024
• Alert Europe Approves Its First Drug for Von Hippel-Lindau Tumors Welireg counters the effects of defective VHL protein, reducing disease-associated tumors.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2024
• Orthostatic Rises in SBP Not Tied to Increased CVD Risk The different associations of standing hypertension and systolic orthostatic increases in BP with CVD raises concerns about combining the two in a single definition for orthostatic hypertension.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2024
• Europe Allows Novo to Include Reduction Of Kidney Disease in Ozempic Label The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will allow Novo Nordisk to add risk reduction for events related to kidney disease to the label of its diabetes drug Ozempic, the Danish...
  Reuters Health Information, December 12, 2024
• ACR 2024 LN Guideline: Special Considerations Needed for Kids Despite following the same basic recommendations as the adult guidelines, the pediatric LN guidelines included special considerations for younger patients.
  Medscape Medical News, December 12, 2024
• Clopidogrel Tops Aspirin Post-PCI, Even in High-Risk Cases A post hoc analysis revealed that the long-term benefits of clopidogrel over aspirin after PCI were most evident in patients with high bleeding risk who underwent complex procedures.
  Medscape Medical News, December 10, 2024