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'Women on Dialysis Want to Get Pregnant'; Rates Higher Than Thought Women on dialysis are more likely to become pregnant than previously thought, but the rate of live births is low compared with the general population. Preconception counseling is advised.
Medscape Medical News, October 10, 2019
Top 10 Health Tech Hazards for 2020 Surgical staplers, point-of-care ultrasound, and sterile processing procedures top the ECRI Institute's annual list of top tech hazards.
Medscape Medical News, October 8, 2019

TCT 2019 Zero-Contrast PCI in CKD Patients Helps Avoid Later Dialysis
Medscape Medical News, October 4, 2019
Guideline Recommends Direct-acting Antivirals for HCV in People With Kidney Disease
Reuters Health Information, September 25, 2019
Alzheimer's Drug Linked to Potentially Serious Muscle Condition
Medscape Medical News, September 19, 2019
Expanding Home Dialysis for Kidney Disease Feasible and Safe
Medscape Medical News, September 13, 2019

Dialysis Perspective

For-Profit Dialysis Units Referring Less for Transplant? A recent study shows that patients at for-profit dialysis units are less likely to be placed on the transplant waitlist than patients at non-profit units. What's going on?
Medscape, September 11, 2019
Trump Should Get Kudos for Looking at Kidney Dialysis, Transplant Dr Art Caplan discusses President Trump's ideas regarding re-examination of dialysis and kidney transplant in the US, and the need to improve access to immunosuppressive drugs post-transplant.
Medscape Business of Medicine, August 30, 2019

Elegy on a Doctor's Most Challenging Patient
August 26, 2019
AKI Prediction Models: Room for Improvement
Medscape Nephrology, August 23, 2019
CKD and CVD Hit Healthcare Pocketbook and Patients With T2D Hard
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, August 2, 2019
Advancing American Kidney Health: The Ultimate RCT?
Medscape Nephrology, July 19, 2019

Journals

Impact of US PHS Increased Risk Deceased Donor Designation
American Journal of Transplantation, September 26, 2019
Virtual Reality, Music, and Pain Management
Pain, September 24, 2019
What Happens to the Live Donor in the Years After Donation?
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, September 17, 2019
Risk Factors for MDROs Among Deceased Organ Donors
American Journal of Transplantation, September 12, 2019
Noncarbapenems for UTIs Caused by ESBL-Producing Bacteria
Southern Medical Journal, September 6, 2019

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