Nephrology News

• HFA-ESC 2023 CardioMEMS Boosts QoL, Curbs HF Hospitalizations: MONITOR-HF Findings from the first randomized clinical trial of remote pulmonary artery pressure monitoring for patients with chronic heart failure in Europe are "reassuring."
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2023
• Beta Blocker Gel Shows Promise for Diabetic Foot Ulcers A novel topical treatment appears to improve healing in patients with diabetic foot ulcers, suggest results from a phase 3 trial, although experts warn the results need confirming in further studies.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2023
• Court Throws Out Lawsuit Against Google Over Medical Records Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2023
• Could Love Hormone Help Psychological Symptoms in AVD? For the first time, a provocation test using MDMA has demonstrated that oxytocin is lacking in people with arginine vasopressin deficiency, previously known as diabetes insipidus.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2023
• LUPUS & KCR 2023 Lupus Nephritis Treatment Response Biomarkers Gain Ground A panel of protein biomarkers in urine could achieve better identification of lupus nephritis patients who are likely to respond to treatment.
  MDedge News, May 19, 2023
• AMA President on Fighting Prior Auth, Scope Creep, and More The president of the American Medical Association, Jack Resneck Jr, MD, discusses government interference in healthcare, the prior authorization mess, and more in a wide-ranging interview with Medscape.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2023
• SCAI Drafts Guidance on Renal Denervation for Hypertension The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions releases draft guidance on the adoption of renal denervation for hypertension in anticipation of regulatory approval.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2023
• ECO 2023 Half of Teens Drop Below Obesity Cutoff With Semaglutide Semaglutide represents an efficacious treatment option for adolescents with obesity, with the potential to reduce BMI below the obesity threshold.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• SGIM 2023 Pop This Question to Improve Medication Adherence If you're not talking with your patients about how they can save money on their healthcare, you're missing an opportunity to improve outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• Drug Shortages in US at 10-Year High Drug shortages hit a 10-year high in early 2023. Among the current shortage are 15 cancer drugs, some of which lack an effective alternative.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• ECO 2023 Obesity Drug With Swallowable Balloon Boosts Weight Loss A combination of a swallowable Allurion gastric balloon and liraglutide delivers higher weight loss (around 19% after mean 4 months) than use of separate treatments.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• Chinook Shares Down About 6%, Paring Steep Loss Shares of Chinook Therapeutics tumbled after short-seller Muddy Waters said it was 'highly unlikely' that the company's treatment for chronic kidney disease would receive US regulatory approval.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2023
• AACE 2023 TransCon PTH Nears US Approval for Hypoparathyroidism? Ascendis is working to address the FDA's manufacturing concern and awaits a European regulatory decision.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2023
• Doctors Fervently Hope Fed Ban on Noncompetes Gets Passed Noncompete agreements, a long-standing thorn in the side of physicians and other clinicians, may become a thing of the past depending on an upcoming final decision.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2023
• Gestational HTN, Preeclampsia Raise HF Risk, Ischemic or Not They are "so much more than short-term disorders," a researcher says. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy "have long-term implications throughout a lifetime."
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2023
• ECO 2023 Metabolic Abnormalities Boost Obesity-Related Cancer Risk First study to show obesity-related cancer risk is 1.5-fold higher in people with metabolic aberrations as well as obesity, compared with metabolically healthy and normal weight individuals.
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2023
• AACE 2023 Noninvasive Skin Test May Aid in Cushing Diagnosis A device that measures tissue accumulation of advanced glycation end products can point to endogenous hypercortisolism.
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2023
• CGM Completes Picture of A1c in Type 2 Diabetes 'It is hoped that the use of these new [CGM] metrics should lead to an improved quality of glycemic control and, in turn, to a reduction in the number of diabetes-related complications,' say researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2023
• CDC Cuts Back Hospital Data Reporting on COVID Some experts wonder whether CDC will have enough timely information to guide public health decisions if the virus comes roaring back.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2023
• Simplifying Diagnosis of Rejection After Kidney Transplant User-friendly ChatGPT-like system allows for accurate diagnoses of rejection, using often complicated Banff classification criteria 'with just a few clicks.' Observers hail the work as 'innovative.'
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2023