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Current AI suicide-prevention tools largely lack adequate safeguards.

suicide prevention and artificial intelligence
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.251693

Current AI suicide-prevention tools largely lack adequate safeguards. suicide prevention and artificial intelligence DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.251693

🩺📚 Learn more this week about suicide prevention and artificial intelligence.
➡️ www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.251693

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Still ordering hydralazine? 🤔
Beyond case reports, this large cohort compares hydralazine vs ACEi/ARB to estimate real-world vasculitis risk, will this 📉 bias & clarify the answer
Read more 👇
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....

#TenPostNephJC #NephJC
#NephSky #MedSky

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Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada Globalnews.ca – Watch and read Canada’s Breaking news plus Business, Health, Politics and World News

Vancouver designer John Fluevog creates shoe to honour kidney donor | Globalnews.ca - goo.gl/alerts/ShFS9x #GoogleAlerts

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From missed opportunities to equitable access: Can STEPS redesign the kidney transplant pathway? — NephJC Summary of the STEPS trial which will be a twitter spaces discussion

#NephJC and @theisn.org Advancing Clinical Trials collab for #Nephtrials

STEPS trial tests coordinated system-level intervention to improve preemptive kidney transplant

🗓️XSpce: April 10, 12pm EST

✍️Blog by @dramiliflores.bsky.social and @nephroseeker.medsky.social
www.nephjc.com/news/steps-n...

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How a simple question could help reduce youth homelessness New programs aim to divert youth away from shelters by reconnecting them with a loved one

How a simple question could help reduce youth homelessness. New programs aim to divert youth away from shelters by reconnecting them with a loved one, by @erinanderssen.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article... via @theglobeandmail.com

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ok, I’ll bite…. I do it for the content slides especially if there is a reference cited. It helps to reinforce learning to go back and look at some of the key information later- at any time.
Sometimes a title slide to remember the presenter etc
Lots of good reasons, & it’s a compliment too, :)

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a player with the number 24 on his jersey Alt: a player with the number 24 on his jersey making a 3-pointer in basketball, ;)

When you have a clinical research manager who submits to the Ethics Review Committee (ERC) on your behalf

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ooh, thank you for sharing, @jonathanpollack.bsky.social 🙏 respectfully, I was touched to read your story, thank you, 🙏💛

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IN A FEW WORDS essay by Jonathan S. Pollack: The Roller Coaster Ride of IgA Nephropathy

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Physical activity and appropriate sleep linked to subsequent lower dementia risk An estimated 55 million people live with dementia worldwide, and both its prevalence and cost are expected to increase, with global costs projected to reach $2 trillion dollars by 2030. Current treatm...

Physical activity and appropriate sleep linked to subsequent lower dementia risk medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04...

#Alzheimers #dementia #health #wellness #sleep #exercise #fitness

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AI-generated content should be clearly labelled to help people spot fakes, committee says MPs also recommend copyright laws be broadened to protect the integrity of creators’ work
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Medicine, the Holocaust, and Human Dignity: Lessons from Human Rights The development of bioethics in the late Twentieth Century parallels the development of human rights discourses. Both intellectual movements have ideological roots in a reckoning with the tragedy of the...

Reports of dignity’s death as a useful bioethics concept were greatly exaggerated. It does real work — precisely because it unsettles the dust that cleaner operational constructs leave behind. #bioethics

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📢 The FDA has approved the first ever treatment for FSGS, supported by the PARASOL initiative.

RaDaR contributed as an external validation cohort, highlighting the power of global collaboration & patient data.

📰: https://ow.ly/IJNH50YJXBB

#RareDisease #KidneyResearch #FSGS

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Ontario overhauls MAID oversight committee, critics say it's to remove dissenters www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-o...
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Self-Measured Home Orthostatic Hypo- and Hypertension—Prevalence and Associations With Atherosclerosis and Arterial Stiffness

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#OpenAccess

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Editorial commentary

Orthostatic Hypertension, an Easy to Detect Cardiovascular Prognostic Marker That Cannot be Neglected academic.oup.com/ajh/article-...

Original research: academic.oup.com/ajh/article/...

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FF91 Liberate-D Podcast Episode · Freely Filtered, a NephJC Podcast · March 30 · 1h 36m

Freely Filtered for Liberate-D just dropped! We had a great time talking with some of the study authors and learning why we should be saying “No” more frequently @hswapnil.medsky.social @captainchloride.bsky.social

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Nighttime Central Blood Pressure and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Non-Dialysis CKD: A Multicenter Study

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The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers — I've had multiple friends and family members send me the article with some version of the same message: "Can you believe this guy built a billion-dollar company with AI?

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI

Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…

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lonnie's splash

lonnie's splash

Happening tomorrow!

@lonniepyne.bsky.social from McMaster will present on eGFR changes as outcomes of interest

#NephGR #NephSky

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Injectable Peptides Are a New Anti-Aging Trend. Are They Safe? Injectable peptides are the new anti-aging trend sweeping the beauty industry.

Regulation is not keeping up with peptide therapy. And there are still major gaps in the evidence about whether peptides' anti-aging claims stack up, and whether they are safe for humans.
www.sciencealert.com/injectable-p...

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*I mean CMV- not BKV- pick

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hmm, maybe… maybe not, 😅😂 we need the C3G treatment to keep the Cdn. #NephMadness trophy to make up for the cats & BKV & Fabry picks on our B-cell bracket, lol, 🤓😃😅😂🙏🤞
soo, am hoping for a BIG #BRPFail, 😃😅🙏🤞

anyway… just sayin’… C3G sounds good: 😃😅👇

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#NephMadness 2026: C3G Treatment–The Ultimate Glow-Up Story Sayna Norouzi @SaynaNorouzi – @saynanorouzi.bsky.social Sayna Norouzi is an associate professor of Medicine and clinical nephrologist at Loma Linda University Medical Center and completed her…

Learn more about C3G Treatment in this #NephMadness commentary by @saynanorouzi.bsky.social and Saloni Gupta on the #AJKDBlog:

C3G Treatment–The Ultimate Glow-Up Story

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#NephMadness 2024: Hyponatremia Correction Region Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2024 | #NephMadness  Selection Committee Member: Mirjam Christ-Crain @ChristCrain Mirjam Christ-Crain is Full Professor and Deputy Chief of Endocrinology at the Uni…

Thanks!, 🤓🙏
Reminiscent of #NephMadness a couple of years ago when ‘slow correction’ of hyponatremia went to the #FilteredFour - Slow correction better than rapid correction it seems, 🤓🤔
#nephjc

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Announcing the NephJC Editorial Internship — NephJC Are you a curious, motivated nephrology fellow or early‑career faculty member with a passion for science communication? NephJC is inviting a small group of talented individuals to join our Editorial I...

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Like what you see 👀
Want to join a fun team of FOAMed enthusiasts?
Want to learn more about VAs, Blogs and Podcasts (oh my)!
Applications now open: www.nephjc.com/news/nephjc-editorial-internship
This has been @brianrifkin.bsky.social with a NEW 10 POSTS ✍️

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System Interventions to Achieve Early and Equitable Kidney Transplants (STEPS): Protocol for STEPS, a randomized comparative effectiveness clinical trial - PubMed The System Interventions to Achieve Early and Equitable Kidney Transplants Study (STEPS) is an ongoing pragmatic clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of an equitable and patient-centered approach to kidney care on equitable access to early kidney transplants for individuals with chronic ki …

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Final thoughts
🧂Don't be salty, sometimes doing nothing isn't wrong.

➡️Up next- 4/10/26: NephTrials System Interventions to Achieve Early and Equitable Kidney Transplants (STEPS): protocol (www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40199386/)
More at www.nephjc.com/

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Searchin’ For My Lost Shaker of Salt- Targeted Treatment of Hyponatremia — NephJC This week, we will discuss the HIT trial- a large randomized study challenging one of the most reflexive responses in hospital medicine: see hyponatremia, fix the sodium. But what if correcting the nu...

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I want more info:
He’s here, he’s there he’s every f-ing where Roy Ken..I mean @brianrifkin.bsky.social with the VA and blog:
www.nephjc.com/news/hyponatremia/hit-trial
www.nephjc.com/news/2026/4/4/hyponatremia-correction-the-visual-abstract

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Question 2/3
#NephJC #NephSky
2. Do you think if strategies were followed longer (60 days post hospitalization) that the outcomes may have been different?

3. Would you want to see an exclusively outpatient, protocol driven intervention with outcomes?

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Question 1
#NephJC #NephSky
1. What is your treatment of choice for a hospitalized, asymptomatic mildly hyponatremia (128-134 mmol/L) euvolemic pt?
a. nothing
b. fluid restriction
c. urea
d. vaptan
e. other

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