CW
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Kidney doctor, interested in care that makes a difference.
It’s nearly 1pm and I’m desperate for another cup of coffee. But then there is this to consider: www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Pres...
Morning coffee may protect the heart better than all-day coffee drinking
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One week left to apply for this exciting PhD project examining the links between pain prescribing and cognitive decline. Application deadline: 13th January. Get in touch if you have any questions! 💊🧠
🌟PhD Opportunity🌟 Investigate the links between opioids, other analgesics, and cognitive decline/dementia. Supervisors include researchers at Edinburgh and Glasgow University and the Karolinska Institute! Learn more about this Precision Medicine PhD and apply below!⬇️ usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
Said to be called ‘Piss Prophets’
Early Doctors Diagnosed Disease by Looking at Urine #Nephpearls #NephSky - Nowadays, as nephrologists, we still look at the urine to provide us answers to diagnostic inquiries 👉 daily.jstor.org/early-doctor... 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30626576/
Among pts hospitalized with AKI, recommendations from a Kidney Action Team did not significantly prevent the composite outcome of worsening AKI stage, dialysis, or mortality, despite a higher rate of recommendation in the intervention group. https://ja.ma/4iLsIRU
Brilliant by the awesome Margaret McCartney. It seems to me there is a widespread brief in “prevention” which is really early detection. This belief is often wrong, and whether to screen is usually a difficult call. Fund and support the National Screening Committee. Listen to experts.
open access, BMJ about celebrity stories and PSA screening www.bmj.com/content/387/...