Could tunneled catheters be more than a last resort for hemodialysis treatment? This #perspective in #ASNCJASN offers insight and a more nuanced view of central venous catheters (CVCs). kidney.pub/CJASN0852
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Could tunneled catheters be more than a last resort for hemodialysis treatment? This #perspective in #ASNCJASN offers insight and a more nuanced view of central venous catheters (CVCs). kidney.pub/CJASN0852
Celebrating w/ @asdinnews.bsky.social September = #WomenInMedicineMonth ✨ Join us as we celebrate incredible women of #ASDIN! To celebrate, we're excited to share the Women of ASDIN video, produced as part of our 20th Annual Scientific Meeting. 👉 Click here to watch: youtu.be/D2lqcNlw-t4?si…
Check out the ACHIEVE visual abstract by @nephromommy-akshu.bsky.social www.nephjc.com/news/2025/8/...
Join us 9/2/25 at 9pm EST. We will discuss the use of spironolactone in patients on dialysis to prevent t cardiovascular outcomes and heart failure hospitalizations. Invite your friends. #NephJC #NephSky www.nephjc.com/news/achieve
Join us #NephJC #NephSky
Excellent summary of the ACHIEVE trial from @drsaivani.bsky.social & @thekidneywhisperer.bsky.social #NephJC chat tomorrow www.nephjc.com/news/achieve
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Can't keep track of all the #ESCCongress articles? I've gathered most of the @nejm.org publications under one umbrella for you. #medsky www.evidencetriage.com/p/its-europe...
So, we shouldn’t listen to the person who actually did the research, has 25 yrs of experience, is nationally recognized & gives lectures around the globe? Is this person infallible, no. Should we accept all conclusions without question, also no. Should we listen to RFK Jr, absolutely no!
This is a close as “may you have children just like you” curse my mom put on me.
If you have a pulse and would like a prescription for COVID-19 vaccine, I will write it no cost!
cc: @nephroseeker.medsky.social @brianrifkin.bsky.social
No chance of exploitation of poor people by rich people. 🙄
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The US sparsentan REMS requirements have been updated and now require Q3 month liver labs instead of monthly. ir.travere.com/press-releas...
🧵Skeetorial Alert 🧵 1/ Hey #NephSky! Welcome to a 🆕 #skeetorial brought to you by @kireports.bsky.social
I really don’t think people will be denied access, however, if you are not in the recommended group insurance will likely deny your claim. Also, production of vaccines is likely to be lower because CDC guidelines recommend limiting recipients, so regional shortage are likely.
Come on, “physical inactivity” is right there staring you in the face. EVERYONE QUALIFIES!!!
There is no hope of educating the worm 🪱
Welcome to the revolution, it’s a revelation baby!
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Once while driving across the panhandle of Florida my 4 year old noted the large number of Cracker Barrel restaurants. We started calling it “Cracker Florida”. True as it ever was.
A story in 2 skeets: Your 7-year-old child is irrevocably injured in #schoolshooting, paralyzed by #bullets. Can no longer not only go to school, but can't feed or dress or bathe or use toilet. You, parent who holds full time job, need to stay home, because there are no #nursinghomes for children
They dropped the charges on the Subway guy…he beat the wrap!
Why hasn’t the company been calling, this could be the greatest ad campaign of all time. “Subway, YEET fascists!!”
Well your user name is literally “Brain Destroyer” so I guess you are at least partially to blame ? To quote William Wallace, “You can our lives, yada-yada-yada!”
We moved to MS 1 month before #Katrina hit. We celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary without power, water or a way to get back to our house. We, and our cats, lived at the hospital for 4 days. This design on a hotplate was inspired by the plague of love-bugs that followed the storm.
Nice, definitely could do a kidney balloon 🎈
Ok, sometimes creativity makes for strange associations… I’ve seen the memes of the Banksy guy throwing a sandwich, and I’m working on art for #KidneyWeek25… so I give you: #Kidneyeet , a faster path to transplant 🤷 #NephSky
It’s fine, just turn the whole thing off /s (But seriously it sounds the the ship has been hit by a torpedo and everyone should abandon ship immediately)
In Mississippi, Black infants consistently have the highest mortality rates, which were significantly higher than those for White infants in recent years, with one report showing a rate of 15.2 deaths per 1,000 live births for Black babies compared to 5.8 for White babies in 2024.
Mississippi is dumb. (Thanks Captain Obvious 🫡) VPN engaged…I’m back baby
I see kidney #NephSky
The dumbification of America, Idiocracy was a prophecy not a comedy
Nope, no porn day; but now that you brought it up RFK Jr will require it along with “nutritional” courses in med school. 🫣
Hey #MedSky anyone got $3?!
Simpson are spot on again
Are you sure you’re not the assistant to the associate professor? Congrats 🎉
Colleges already screwed, enrollment is going way down. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
“A survey of over 500 colleges and universities by the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit which works with governments and others to promote international education, found that 35% of the schools experienced a dip in applications from abroad last spring, the most since the pandemic”
“Crime is out of control there, and it’s clear something must be done to combat it. Americans deserve a safe capital city that we can all be proud of.” The irony is completely lost on him. What about Jackson MS?!
Nice job @kidneyboy.bsky.social , one might even say… #NephJC
I liked 10, A Study in Tuberculin. KOCH, Doyle, Pasteur #NephJC
#NephJC This book really is the antithesis of our current situation in the US with all the anti-science, defunding of discoveries and conspiracy nonsense.
I have a feeling TB will be around much longer than mankind #NephJC
There is something about a candle snuffed out prematurely that captures the imagination-it is the thought perhaps of the books, paintings and songs that might’ve been, or the idea that artists simply burn too bright for this world. -pp 63
I forgot that one 😱 #NephJC
Didn’t he also create the internet 🛜 😜 #NephJC
Found out in Oslo Norway this summer that the artist Munch’s family was also profoundly effected by TB #NephJC
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Someone mentioned it already, Dr Alan Hart. I good books makes you want to read more about interesting characters in history #NephJC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_L....
For those of us in medicine, we all know a “Henry” who makes the best of the cards they are dealt, and show amazing strength and resilience. #NephJC
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Really makes the reader have a personal stake in the diagnosis and treatment of TB. It is always important to give disease a face to build empathy #NephJC
Amazing the number of literary references (many I hadn’t considered previously) #NephJC
Fiction or nonfiction, I prefer…short. I almost felt like I needed to start The Covenant of Water over when I finished because I forgot the beginning. #NephJC
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Brian Rifkin, no COI But I did train at UMDNJ, Newark capitol of TB and car theft in the USA #NephJC You’ll be fine @kidneyboy.bsky.social
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Just a few hours left for the #NephJC book club ! 📒 We’re discussing “Everything Is Tuberculosis” by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social ! Come see how he turns a disease 🦠 into a story about injustice, stigma, and hope. 🙏🏻 @hswapnil.medsky.social @kidneyboy.bsky.social @brianrifkin.bsky.social
“The World Health Organization is warning that current transmission patterns resemble a global outbreak that infected 500,000 people 20 years ago, contributing to a surge of new disabilities. Although it is rarely fatal, chikungunya causes excruciating and prolonged joint pain and weakness.”
As long as you remember to use it?!
Beautiful and meaningful poem by @nephromommy-akshu.bsky.social inspired by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's Everything is Tuberculosis www.nephjc.com/news/2025/8/...
After 2 on calls in 4 days, relax time… 🗺️Finishing 📚 for tomorrow’s #NephJC bookclub Any favorite quote?
It's finally here!! #NephJC summer book club 📚 Everything is Tuberculosis by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social 8/19/25 @ 9pm EST Come for the discussion, stay for stories. www.nephjc.com/news/2025/8/...
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Things I found out from data: - The #MayoClinic apparently pays its physicians really well (highest compensated city in country is Rochester, MN, and in probably one of the lower COL places in US) - #AnnArbor has third lowest salaries in US for physicians, but drops out of top 10 with COL adjustment
Everything is Tuberculosis ✍️&🎙️ John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social #NephJC 📚 #NephJCBookClub #NephJCSummerBookClub 👉 www.nephjc.com/news/2025/6/... @nephroseeker.medsky.social @brianrifkin.bsky.social @kidneyboy.bsky.social @hswapnil.medsky.social
…but what about dose, duration, initiation prior to dialysis, patients who make urine vs anuric and nsMRAs #NephJC
Subway is having a heck of a year! First Happy Gilmore 2 and now this.
Listening to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social 's Everything is Tuberculosis as I prep for Tuesday's #NephJC Summer Book Club. 9pm EDT
Bully puppet 😂😂😂
Are you fishing for an answer?
Man, you’re everywhere! I’m getting tired just reading your articles
You’re full of $h!t
🎥 ASDIN TV! 🎥 @Kidneylsu shares insights on dialysis access and patient outcomes in this exclusive clip from his full interview—now available online! 🔗 Watch it here: youtu.be/TnhvKK6hrAA?...
1/10 Last #NephJC we discussed HiLo: Hi vs Lo phos targets in HD patients #TenPostNephJC Can restricted diets & loading patients full of phos binders be filed under “Things We Do For No Reason,” or do we finally have proof these measures save lives? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40638247/
Could interleukin-6 have the potential to lead to treatments for calciphylaxis? The rare and life-threatening complication takes center stage in a new study described by Aarushi Varshney and Matthew Sparks. kidney.pub/KN1707-20 #ASNKidneyNews @nephrosparks.bsky.social
Studies are hard. If they were easy…we’d already have all the answers #NephJC
#NephJC I’m (overly) critical, but I appreciate any and all authors insight into the challenges of study design and evaluation 🍻
Read da book #NephJC
I don’t feel like I’ve changed my goals, but I probably have limited the upper amount of binders I prescribe since starting practice (due to patient reluctance) #NephJC
Agreed, again I’m impressed they went to publication rather than abandon ship #NephJC
