The transactional US government: HIV medications, biological specimens, and mineral rights in Zambia
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/health/zambia-hiv-aid-minerals-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.lCAy.Y3bnxyhgoR95&smid=nytcore-ios-share (gift link) Stephanie Nolen in the NYT
Orwellian betting markets
Since their prediction came wrong, these chaps try to alter reality by changing what’s reported
What is the actual risk of vasculitis with hydralazine aka #HydrANCAzine?
Ottawa colleagues say ~ 20% higher risk vs RASi but overall very low absolute risk
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2846501 in JNO
FIND CKD meets primary outcome (GFR slope) in n ~ 1500 with proteinuric non-diabetic CKD
Bayer press release:
https://www.bayer.com/media/en-us/finerenone-meets-primary-endpoint-in-pivotal-phase-iii-find-ckd-study-in-patients-with-non-diabetic-chronic-kidney-disease/
BL data + design paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38858818/ in NDT
H/T Brendon Neuen on LinkedIn (!)
From a large (almost 150,000) Fresenius cohort
Association of dialysis time with survival
3 hours worse than longer
https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(26)02715-4/fulltext?rss=yes in KI Reports
(Yes RCTs have failed to show benefit with longer)
The Armanni-Ebstein (not Epstein😅) lesion in a nondiabetic patient
The glycosuria from flozination can cause these, very interesting phenomenon
https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(26)00058-X/fulltext in Kidney International
Is Semaglutide cost effective?
Good: I like this push to make them cheaper
Bad: all the assumptions in this model. SELECT is not the only RCT & VC outcomes are all that matter!
Yet another ddAVP trial for kidney biopsies with neutral results
https://academic.oup.com/ckj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ckj/sfag083/8516492
In Clinical Kidney Journal
Previous #NephJC discussion: https://www.nephjc.com/news/ddavp
Genuinely important and widespread problem
AI/LLM generated hallucinated citations which look very real (real journals, real authors, topics they do research in) rapidly infecting journals broadly
Green urine
Familiar agent, unfamiliar product (Uribel!)
https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(25)01038-5/abstract?rss=yes
Kidney International
