Medicine

Older adults with end-stage kidney disease had “modest gains” in life expectancy by starting on dialysis vs. choosing continuing medical management but spent less time at home, results from study show.

Rate and progression of chronic kidney disease may increase with age, according to a published study, but estimates could vary based on the filtration marker used.

Ravulizumab was successful in improving blood health, kidney function and quality of life while maintaining eGFR in pediatric and adult patients with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, according to published data.

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine have performed the first kidney transplant in the U.S. in which the patient was awake during procedure, according to a press release from the hospital.

Pfizer Inc. and its chairman/CEO, Albert Bourla, PhD, will be awarded the 2024 AACR Outstanding Achievement Award for Service to Cancer Science and Medicine during the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Despite the importance of the specialty of infectious diseases in modern medicine — made all the more evident by the COVID-19 pandemic — many rural areas of the United States do not have access to specialized ID care.

Maladaptive proximal tubule cells may play a key role in the long-term effect of AKI, according to data from the Kidney Precision Medicine Project.

Overdose deaths among high school-aged adolescents in the United States more than doubled between 2019 and 2020, researchers reported this week in The New England Journal of Medicine found.

Hope is what pulled me in to family medicine.

For eye care providers who practice evidence-based medicine, one guiding principle is the reliability of a treatment’s effectiveness, which goes far beyond intuition, experience and training and instead depends on sound, valid science.