Nephrology Experts & Viewpoints

Icyou: How Social Media Is the New Resource for Online Health Information Prerna Mona Khanna, MD, MPH, Medical Editor, Icyou.com, Charleston, South Carolina, describes another promising use of the health Internet.
Commentary, May 2008
Determinants of Discard of Expanded Criteria Donor Kidneys: Impact of Biopsy and Machine Perfusion Pumping and performing biopsies on ECD kidneys may help facilitate both refusal by centers with low utilization rates and acceptance by centers with high utilization rates.
Commentary, May 2008
Retirement May Be Hazardous to Your Health Retirement may be hazardous to your health.
Commentary, May 2008
Congress Passes Genetic Privacy Bill In this videoblog, Dr. Eric Topol updates us on some of the details and discusses what this might mean for the future if it is signed into law.
Commentary, May 2008
Pharmacovigilance in Nephrology Recent controversies about heparin contamination from China and ESA adverse effects raise questions about drug safety and FDA oversight.
Commentary, May 2008
Managing Sudden Cardiac Death in Predialysis CKD Patients and in Patients Undergoing Dialysis: An Expert Interview With Charles A. Herzog, MD Medscape interviews Charles A. Herzog, MD, Professor of Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center, during the 2008 NKF meeting on the impact of sudden cardiac death.
Expert Interview, May 2008
Regional Anesthesia, Compression, and Aspirin Is the Safest Form of Prophylaxis for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Regional anesthesia, compression, and aspirin is the safest form of prophylaxis for hip and knee arthroplasty.
Commentary, May 2008
Underutilization of Thromboprophylaxis in Patients With Heart Failure Gregory Piazza, MD, Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, discusses how poorly many hospitals are preventing deep vein thrombosis.
Expert Interview, April 2008
High Blood Pressure in the Very Elderly: The HYVET Results Dr. Henry Black discusses HYVET's answer to an old question -- can we, and should we, treat high blood pressure in the very elderly?
Commentary, April 2008
Vitamin D and the Diabetic Patient Daniel W. Coyne, MD, Professor of Medicine at Washington University, describes the consequences of low vitamin D and the potential to increase the risk for diabetes mellitus.
Expert Column, April 2008

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According to a recent study, authors inconsistently disclose and journals inconsistently publish conflicts of interest. The study authors say it is difficult to tell whether authors intentionally fail to disclose a conflict or journals are not asking for or not publishing it. Do you think the disclosures in most journals are or are not reliable?

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Pharmacovigilance in Nephrology Recent controversies about heparin contamination from China and ESA adverse effects raise questions about drug safety and FDA oversight.
Commentary, May 2008

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