Undocumented Immigrant

AUSTIN, Texas — In the keynote presentation at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Lilia Cervantes, MD, detailed a framework for advocacy in the kidney community and called upon nephrologists to take action.

Although progress has been made, undocumented immigrants with kidney failure are underserved and in desperate need of care, according to a presenter at Innovations in Dialysis: Expediting Advances Symposium.

There was a significant decrease in primary care visits among undocumented residents between June 2015 and May 2018, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

Healio and Healio LIVE received seven APEX awards, including one Grand Award — the highest recognition — presented to Infectious Diseases in Children.

It is likely a story most rheumatologists have dealt with: A male patient with severe myositis, barely able to walk, who is challenged at multiple steps to get access to treatment. A muscle biopsy would be too expensive — such big-ticket items are not covered very well — and a small safety-net clinic would be unable to provide such a service. The patient had worked as a landscaper, in the intense summer heat of Phoenix for years, and had been the sole breadwinner for his family. Now, his wife would have to shoulder the burden of caring for him and their children.

Refugees were at a greater risk for nonaffective psychoses compared with the native population and nonrefugee migrants in Western host countries, according to findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.