On Monday, February 27 at 9:00 pm EDT the Onco-Nephrology community is hosting a journal chat on immune checkpoint inhibitors and all ASN members are invited! Here is how you can participate: Join the Onco-Nephrology Community, if you haven’t already Set your community…
Want to up your ultrasound game… Attend the point of care ultrasound for the nephrologist pre-course at the NKF Spring Clinical Meeting in Orlando, FL April 18 2017 click here to register The nephrology consultant needs knowledge of…
When- April 7-8, 2017 Where- Little Rock, Arkansas Who should attend- Internal Medicine Residents, Pediatric Residents, Adult and Pediatric Fellows, Attending Nephrologists **if you are an adult nephrology fellow and interested in coming please note that you should…
2016 marks the 7th year of the Top Nephrology Stories post on RFN. When this list first started in 2010 it was more challenging to get the stories. Now 7 years later, everything has changed. In my mind…
Global warming is a growing threat to our health. Dialysis, while sustaining the lives of millions worldwide, has a significant environmental impact. Think of your last dialysis order. Perhaps the Kd was 500 ml/min for four hours. That’s…
It’s that time of the year. Time to create the Top Nephrology Stories of 2016. These can range from basic to clinical research, and even include news stories. Basically anything that made an impact. Before the voting begins…
This years 7th annual Tweetup at ASN Kidney Week in Chicago will be held at Benny’s Chop House on Friday night from 7:30 to 10pm. We would love to see everyone show up. The night will include The…
NephJC is gearing up for Kidney Week in Chicago. NephJC is also sponsoring the inaugural NephJC Kidneys. You thought the Grammys or Emmys were big? Well, wait until you see the Kidneys hosted by none other than Kidney…
Paul G. Schmitz (Saint Louis University TPD) recently published 2 new textbooks useful for students, residents, and fellows interested in kidney disorders. These are both FREE downloads from the iBooks store. These are both self-published and interactive (Macs,…
What if we could do more frequent dialysis? Would this improve QOL as potentially seen in the original FHN trial or even improve survival as seen in recent longer-term FHN follow-up? What if we had more resources to…
