John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
Hit the bench, US college basketball! Nephrology has its own March Madness – NephMadness 2017 – courtesy of the crew at AJKD Blog, the official blog of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases. Since 2013, this month-long educational tournament plays out across all social media outlets, providing good-natured competition while highlighting the latest advances and […]
When it was pointed out to retiring James (Jay) Delmez, MD, Professor of Medicine, that he had been here for 39 years, he countered by saying it was much longer than that. “I was born here,” he said. In his paced, quiet manner of speaking, Jay told the story of how his parents came to […]
While it is well known that type 2 diabetes is a common cause of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), researchers have just shown that the opposite may be true. The study, published in JCI, demonstrates that urea is directly responsible for impairing insulin secretion in CKD. In a press release, Laetitia Koppe, MD, PhD, from the […]