A recent article by Dr Sally Marshall in ACKD reviews the natural history of CKD in diabetic patients and reviews the old and the new view...

The effects of frequent nocturnal home hemodialysis: the Frequent Hemodialysis Network Nocturnal Trial. This trial was launched because ...

SOME TEACHING POINTS FROM ASN 2011 Pre course on Dialysis Care We all know that mortality is very high for incident hemodialysis and c...

Nano medicine  was one of the topics presented at ASN 2011. What is that? Dr.Chan described it very well for us at the ASN meet. It i...

This ASN, there was a series of talks regarding complement glomerulopathy and the use of certain newer agents for treatment. Dr Licht discus...

From the pre course on ASN 2011, on Dialysis Modalities The following are different strategies to decrease risk of peritonitis; they a...

One of the highlights of ASN is always the CPC conference. This year the case was a transplant case with viral nephropathy and the nephrop...

Dr Lok from Canada presented the findings of the FISH trial that looked at use of 4gm of fish oil as a primary preventive for AVG stenos...

It was 1967 ( first ASN ever) Some words of wisdom and pride from Dr. Grantham, John Peters Award Recipient "Nephrology is the best k...

An oral abstract presented at the ASN 2011 session talked about an interesting new entity that we should now consider in our diagnosis - Wes...

MPGN classically has been associated with Type 1, II and III variant and divided based on electron microscopic(EM) findings. This ASN, a pa...

CJASN is doing live journal clubs or e journal clubs of the articles published in CJASN. Take a look at this new and innovative fe...

I would like to introduce to the blogsphere:- eAJKD : the official blog of American Journal of Kidney Diseases. http://ajkdblog.org/ T...

ASN 2011 abstracts are now online live at http://www.asn-online.org/education_and_meetings/kidneyweek/archives/KW11Abstracts.pdf Check ou...

American Nephrologists of Indian Origin (ANIO ) is having its annual dinner at ASN Nov 2011 this year. The overall purpose of ANIO is to br...