Latest - Transplantation

• Higher Risk of Falls/Fractures With Androgen Receptor Inhibitors Men with prostate cancer taking androgen receptor inhibitors had a higher risk of both falls and fractures compared with men who took other therapies.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2020
• Early Start: Strategies to Improve Outcomes in IPF: Slowing Is the Goal   Pulmonologists discuss identifying the three common disease courses of IPF through lung function monitoring and the appropriate treatment strategies for each.
  Medscape TV, December 01, 2020
• Review Shows That Pharma Payments Do Influence Prescribing While many physicians resist the idea that pharma payments influence their prescribing, a new review finds a dose-response relationship between the two.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2020
• 20 Best Holiday Gift Ideas for Doctors Everyone wants to select the right gift, and this year more than ever, people want to give something that shows appreciation for a favorite physician in their life. Here are some great suggestions.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 25, 2020
• Medical Leaders Launch Grassroots Doctors' Alliance Inaugural town hall introduces a movement to unite doctors behind a single issue: the restoration of the physician–patient relationship.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2020
• Donor and Transplant Candidate Selection During COVID-19 A newly developed protocol may help in the selection of uninfected donors and recipients for solid organ transplantation during the current pandemic.
  American Journal of Transplantation, November 25, 2020
• Hidden Diagnoses: From Einstein to Luther, JFK to Evita An acclaimed surgeon with rheumatoid arthritis and an emperor with a tracheotomy are among the fascinating vignettes presented here.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 20, 2020
• Liver Cancer Rates Are Rising; So Is Optimism Around Its Treatment Dr Nancy Reau shares the promising data leading her to believe that the trends around liver cancer can soon be reversed.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 20, 2020
• Simultaneous Surgeries Open Door to Kidney Transplants in Obesity Simultaneous sleeve gastrectomy/kidney transplantation, both done robotically, reduced surgical complications in patients with morbid obesity and end-stage renal failure who might otherwise not quality for a transplant
  Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2020
• Increasing Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation Worldwide Could an assisted peritoneal dialysis program help increase utilization?
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, November 18, 2020
• Outcomes of COVID-19 in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients What have we learned about the outcomes of hospitalized solid organ transplant recipients with COVID-19?
  American Journal of Transplantation, November 18, 2020
• Vanquishing Hepatitis C: A Remarkable Success Story A look back at one of the singular achievements in medical research of the past 25 years, and what improvements are still to come.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 17, 2020
• Life, Death, and Painful Dilemmas: Ethics 2020 Medscape looked at how physician ethics have changed in the past decade. More than 5000 physicians told us how they feel about the critical issues they have to deal with and the choices they make.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 13, 2020
• Lancet Panel Calls for Urgent Global Action to Combat Diabetes Four-year effort by an international multidisciplinary panel outlines a data-driven set of recommendations to reduce the worldwide impact of the condition on the eve of World Diabetes Day.
  Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2020
• Applying to Residency in a Pandemic: 5 Virtual Interview Tips Virtual residency interviews present a unique challenge. These five strategies to improve the content of your answers will be valuable long after the pandemic is over.
  Medscape Med Students, November 12, 2020
• New Guidelines Address Diabetes Management in Kidney Disease The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) synopsis document is aimed at primary care physicians and non-nephrology specialists, as well as kidney experts.
  Medscape Medical News, November 09, 2020
• New eGFR Equation 'Less Biased' by Age, Kidney Function; Some Disagree The European Kidney Function Consortium's new equation to estimate GFR based on serum creatinine is said to work better across a range of ages and kidney function, but not everyone agrees.
  Medscape Medical News, November 09, 2020
• Dependent No Longer? PAs Contemplate Their Future What will happen to PA scope of practice when the pandemic is over?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 09, 2020
• 'Kidney' vs 'Renal': Experts Say Words Matter A consensus report from KDIGO recommends using 'kidney' instead of 'renal' when referring to most kidney disease and function, but there has been pushback.
  Medscape Medical News, November 06, 2020
• Why Medscape Worked: A Look Back At its founding, Medscape gambled that an open internet that empowered users to make their own decisions about what to read would democratize medicine. Here's why physicians bought in.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 05, 2020