Advocating for Individuals Living With Kidney Disease: At the Bedside and in the Halls of Congress
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Sylvia E. Rosas @sylviaerosas Sylvia E. Rosas, MD, MSCE is a nephrologist and epidemiologist at the Joslin Diabetes Center and…
#NephMadness 2023: Keeping Patients off the Bench and In the Game for a Winning Shot!
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Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2023 | #NephMadness | #KidneyTransplant Morgan Reid @_morganreid Morgan Reid is the Director…
#NephMadness 2023: Access to Kidney Transplantation Region
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Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2023 | #NephMadness | #KidneyTransplant Selection Committee Member: Vineeta Kumar @VineetaKumar…
Waitlist Eligibility and Disparities in Transplant Access
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Adrian Whelan @AdrianWhelan6 Dr. Adrian Whelan is a Transplant Nephrologist at University of California, San Francisco. He…
Race Is Often Used as Medical Shorthand for How Bodies Work. Some Doctors Want to Change That.
Global Health News Wire,
When Pat Holterman-Hommes read in 2021 that her former colleague, Alphonso Harried, was waiting for a kidney transplant, she…
Race Is Often Used as Medical Shorthand for How Bodies Work. Some Doctors Want to Change That.
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Several months ago, a lab technologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital mixed the blood components of two people: Alphonso Harried…
Race is often used as medical shorthand for how bodies work. Some doctors want to change that.
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Several months ago, a lab technologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital mixed the blood components of two people: Alphonso Harried…
Some Doctors Want To Change How Race Is Used In Medicine
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Race is often conflated with biology in medicine. A more nuanced approach is emerging: using culturally competent care in…
Association of estimated GFR calculated using race-free equations with kidney failure and mortality by black vs non-black race.
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Association of Estimated GFR Calculated Using Race-Free Equations With Kidney Failure and Mortality by Black vs Non-Black Race …
You cannot fix it when you don’t know there is a problem
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The 2nd Thursday of March is designated as World Kidney Day. Starting in 2006, the International Society of Nephrology (ISN…
OHSU ends practice of factoring a patient’s race into treatment decisions in kidney disease
Oregon Health & Sciences University,
The removal of “race factors” in clinical algorithms that help determine who gets how much of what treatments for many diseases…
A Race-Free Approach to Diagnosing Chronic Kidney Disease
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Credit: True Touch Lifestyle; crystal light/Shutterstock Race has a long and tortured history in America. Though great…
Final Report Released on Reassessing Inclusion of Race in eGFR
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FRIDAY, Oct. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — In a final report from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of…
Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function.
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Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function …
On Arguments of Race and Estimated GFR
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A Special Report published in AJKD highlights an interim report from the joint NKF/ASN Task Force on the inclusion of race in…