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I cannot repeat this enough: a study in a Petri dish is not equivalent to a person. Do you know what happens when you pour tap water on cells growing on a piece of plastic? They explode.

2. Fear of an elevated creatinine We've all seen it: the patient with a creatinine of 400 who gets prescribed 20mg of IV furosemide because "I don't want to hurt their kidneys" 🤦‍♀️ We'll assume for the sake of discussion that the patient truly warrants diuresis (perhaps they

I come from a family of doctors & cancer researchers. My district is full of medical professionals. RFK, Jr. is an anti-vax conspiracist. While we hear from him today, here’s the facts on what he did to kids in Samoa & why the Senate must reject him:

SGLT2i in the water supply!!!

Yes, the US government has been subsidizing science. That is not a weakness of our system. It is one of our greatest strengths. Turning our back on NIH and the institutions who do science for the sake of science, not profit, debases us all.

16/ When you hear, "the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service class was cancelled and the officers fired" I hope this gives you a sense of what has been lost. Not just the outbreaks that can't be investigated, the surge capacity gone, but our future public health leadership lost

Hi, immunologist here: surviving measles has zero health benefits.

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It would be great if EVERYONE stopped using chemical as “a bad word” Everything is chemicals. You are chemicals. The source of a chemical means nothing. Natural chemicals aren’t better. Synthetic chemicals aren’t either. They are all just chemicals. 1/

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Lurie Children's Neph and Lurie Children's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit crew at CRRTonline AKI and CRRT in San Diego ✨ what a fun week of ☀️and learning about critical care nephrology 🫘

Love it when insurance companies like Meridian of Illinois practice medicine without a license by denying prior authorizations for immunosuppressants on a weekend day but of course it's impossible to reach anyone to appeal on the weekend. Almost like the system is set up to deny care

I stepped out of a new patient’s consult to have this peer to peer call at the only time offered to me. You may remember an insurance company recently insisting that they’d never interrupt patient care for insurance matters. Reality Check…it happens all the time. The doctor I

So proud of our fellows presenting at Lurie Children's Research Scholar day today!

Loving our Lurie Neph representation at #PAS2025! Learning all about cardiorenal syndrome, updates in nephrotic syndrome, novel approaches for diabetic kidney disease, and so much more 🤩

Our faculty and fellows had such a great time learning the ins and outs, ups and downs, Pre- and post- pumps, connections and flows, and even delta-Ps this week at our ECMO-CRRT workshop!

Honored to present with Sonya Tang Girdwood 鄧 智佳, MD, PhD on optimizing drug dosing on CRRT at the first annual KidneyBee 🐝 meeting today! Inspiring to see a group of nurses and NPs all passionate about critical care nephrology 🫘

Worried about the future of the pediatric nephrology workforce, particularly with upcoming ACGME residency changes? We are too. Proud to share the results of this discussion among peds nephrology division heads led by our own Priya Verghese sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thrilled to be hosting the wise and accomplished Michelle Rheault for a combined adult and pediatric nephrology grand rounds on Alport syndrome. Thank you for your tremendous work and sharing your insights with us! 🫘🧬

And, shout out to not one, not two, but THREE of our faculty for being on the medical education honor roll - Drs. Jeanne Frisby-Zedan, Rhodes Hambrick, and Priya Verghese! 🤩🏆👨‍🏫👩‍🏫 Priya Verghese Jeanne Frisby-Zedan Rhodes Hambrick, MD, MS