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Neural Network Provides Real-Time Prediction of Kidney-Injury Risk A neural-network system can provide continuous prediction of acute kidney injury (AKI) risk using electronic health record (EHR) data, researchers report.
Reuters Health Information, August 6, 2019
They May Owe Nothing: $500K Dialysis Bill Canceled After reporting by KHN, NPR and CBS, Fresenius has agreed to waive a Montana man's huge bill for out-of-network dialysis care.
Kaiser Health News, July 30, 2019

First Kidney Failure, Then a $540,842 Bill for Dialysis
Kaiser Health News, July 29, 2019
Starting Dialysis at Higher EGFR in Kids Linked to Worse Survival
Reuters Health Information, July 26, 2019
New Oral Agent for Anemia in CKD Encouraging but Questions Remain
Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2019
CVS Enters Home Dialysis Care With Clinical Trial of New System
Reuters Health Information, July 18, 2019

Dialysis Perspective

CKD and CVD Hit Healthcare Pocketbook and Patients With T2D Hard Greg Nichols, PhD, discusses the additive effects of chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease on care costs in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, August 2, 2019
Advancing American Kidney Health: The Ultimate RCT? President Trump's Executive Order puts nephrology center stage. Tejas Desai, MD, reviews what the initiative entails for kidney disease clinicians and what details are yet to come.
Medscape Nephrology, July 19, 2019

How Do the Renal Data From CREDENCE and CARMELINA Compare?
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 25, 2019
Just Say No to the ICD in Patients With Kidney Disease
theheart.org on Medscape, June 17, 2019
CREDENCE Shifts Our Thinking About SGLT2 Inhibitors
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 14, 2019
Estimating GFR in the Elderly: Which Equation Is Best?
Medscape Nephrology, May 24, 2019

Journals

ECG for Cardiac Risk Prediction in Chronic and ESKD
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, August 13, 2019
Adrenalectomy Improves ESRD Risk and Aldosteronism Mortality
Journal of the Endocrine Society, August 2, 2019
Dialysis and the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Dementia
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, July 30, 2019
Older Patients More Likely to Have Complex Colon Ischemia
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, July 29, 2019
Nutrition in CKD: Notable Advances in 2018
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, July 17, 2019

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