This week, we will discuss the use of creating chimeras to induce immune tolerance and its potential to decrease or eliminate the need for immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients.
This week, we will discuss the AHA/ACC 2025 hypertension guideline update. Wow, have eight years flown by?
This week, we will discuss the ACHIEVE trial. Will spironolactone achieve CV benefits in ESRD?
The summer book club started in 2015, with one of the best books we have done in book club, Atul Gawande's Being Mortal. I think it should be required reading for all physicians. So now, in 2025, it is the NephJC Summer Book’s tenth anniversary (which represents our eleventh book). The history has been rich:
A few months ago, we mentioned how to subscribe our feed with RSS.
At that time, we had one subscriber (Swapnil) - and to our great surprise, it seems to be that RSS is back. Just see below:
Unless there are spam RSS subscriptions somehow....
In some other news, we would like to thank Marjorie Lazoff for mentioning us in the LITFL blog - go check out their literature review here.
Swapnil Hiremath, M.D.
We are working on a survey of NephJC and I am trying to wrap my mind around what are the most important questions to ask. I really want to know how well NephJC compares as an educational experience to "In Real Life" journal clubs Thinking about that lead to this discussion on Twitter:
With a healthy bump in participants post #ERAEDTA15, just compare the participants. 'Nuff said.
The American chat
The GMT chat
I had thought of starting a Nephrology Journal club ever since I wrote about eJC on PBFluids. In fact if you look at my suggestions for how to improve CJASN eJC, you will see the skeleton for the current #NephJC. But ideas are cheap and I never did anything about it.
In the middle of NephMadness last year I received a tweet from from Swapnil suggesting that someone do a Nephrology Twitter Journal Club. I told him it was a great idea but that I had my hands full with NephMadness and that he should write me after the contest ended.
Literally moments after we announced the winner of NephMadness, Swapnil e-mails me about the journal club. I told him to do some research on how twitter journal clubs work and write a post on Medium. I half hoped he would drop the ball and go away but he published it on April 17. A week later we collaborated on a tighter introduction, also published on Medium (we didn't yet have our SquareSpace sight) And five days after that we held our first NephJC.
