Early CKD identification remains a much-debated subject in kidney care. Over the past year, a group of ISN members has collaborated on a project to provide an understanding of the challenges of implementing early CKD identification and intervention programs. One initial element of the collaboration, a scoping review, has been published in Kidney International Reports: Read...
The ISN invites all its members to complete a brief questionnaire stating the main three (or less) neglected kidney diseases in their country and potential reasons as to why they are overlooked. Complete the survey here by Monday 16, 2022. An ISN group is working on a rare kidney disease project. Because neglected kidney diseases often...
The Global Kidney Care Podcast (GKCP) has recorded a special WKD episode, "World Kidney Day: Health Literacy, a Call for All Nephrologists." Listen to the special WKD edition of the GKCP here. In this episode, Roberto Pecoits-Filho and Smeeta Sinha discuss the history of WKD and the 2022 campaign theme and goals with members of the WKD Steering...
Almost 60, 000 people have taken the ISN “Are Your Kidneys Healthy?" quiz since it launched less than a year ago. Take the quiz here to find out if your kidneys are healthy. Last week the quiz was added in Amharic, alongside the already available Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and...
The 'Anemia of Renal Disease' curriculum is accessible to all on the ISN Academy. Explore the curriculum here. The curriculum is creatively designed using mixed media, including three originally produced voice-over animations, charts, graphs, and self-guided questions to engage students and facilitate learning. The course covers the pathophysiology of renal disease along with the clinical trials guiding...
Over the past several months, a group of ISN members has collaborated on a project to provide a shared understanding of the inherent opportunities and challenges of implementing early CKD identification and intervention programs. A component of this initiative, a protocol for a scoping review, has just been published here. The review aims to synthesize available...
The ISN and Kidney International (KI) are accepting expressions of interest from early-career nephrologists and scientists working in nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation for two positions as ISN-KI Editorial Fellows in 2021-2023. The deadline is June 1, 2021. Find out more on ISN-KI Editorial Fellowships, eligibility criteria, and how to apply here. Successful candidates will be supervised...
Did you explore the “Are your kidneys healthy?” online quiz? Available in 11 languages, this quick survey helps people gauge their risk of kidney disease and indicates when they should see a doctor. The ISN and AstraZeneca developed this public awareness campaign to promote early detection in at-risk categories.
This 0by25 multicenter, non-randomized study evaluated the feasibility of using point-of-care (POC) serum creatinine and urine dipstick testing alongside an educational program to facilitate the identification and management of AKI in three low-resource countries. Access the study here. The researchers hypothesized that a lack of awareness of and access to diagnostic and therapeutic care contributed to...
The ISN Academy and the ISN Education Working Group is pleased to announce a new online educational initiative, KI on the Academy. The Academy will summarize one article per month, selected by the editors of the Kidney International, and present it as a video abstract. This concise video summary will be presented by the author...
In June, ISN attended the 11th Hydration for Health (H4H) conference in Evian, France. ISN President Vivekanand Jha presented highlights on the Hydration for Kidney Health (H4KH) initiative, an ISN activity in partnership with Danone Nutricia Research, as well as on ISN’s global activities. Adeera Levin provided an overview of the results of the 2019...
Thanks to his ISN Hydration for Kidney Health (H4KH) Fellowship, Amarasiri De Silva spent several days at the Danone Nutricia Research Center in France. It was a valuable and unique opportunity to meet other researchers and share his work on chronic kidney disease of unknown origin in Sri Lanka. As partners, Danone Nutricia Research and...
ISN President David Harris and President-Elect Vivek Jha traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia in late November 2018 to officially launch a national initiative with the Indonesian Society of Nephrology (PERNEFRI) to improve access to integrated kidney care throughout Indonesia. During this two-day trip, David and Vivek first met with nephrologists from PERNEFRI to align on national nephrology needs...
The Kidney Care Network recently organized the first acute kidney injury training course for health care providers at Nepal’s B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences. The course is part of the next phase of the 0by25 initiative, testing how interventions of the 0by25 initiative's Pilot Feasibility Projects are implemented in routine clinical care. The Kidney Care...
Once a month, the team behind ISN-ACT (Advancing Clinical Trials) collect and publish a list of important nephrology trials from the latest medical literature. Each trial is reviewed in context and assessed for its risk of bias in key areas. The ISN-ACT is an ISN initiative that sets out to leverage existing infrastructures within ISN to improve...
The Hydration for Kidney Health (H4KH) is an exciting partnership between ISN and Danone Nutricia Research to raise awareness about the effect of hydration on the kidneys. It’s a joint research collaboration, which aims to build more capacity for research in this field and support the efforts of new investigators. We also want to make...
Once a month, we collect and publish a list of important nephrology trials from the latest medical literature. Each trial is reviewed in context and their risk of bias in seven key areas assessed. The ISN-ACT is an initiative of the ISN intended to leverage existing infrastructures within ISN, in order to improve global nephrology community...
With the support of the ISN Sister Centers program, the transplant center at El Shifa Hospital in Gaza, Palestine has partnered with the UK's Royal Liverpool University hospital to build valuable training for doctors in the region so their patients can get the best treatment on offer. Karim Hammad, medical student at University of...
The Standardised Outcomes in Nephrology – Polycystic Kidney Disease (SONG-PKD) initiative is calling on the nephrology community to be part of the SONG-PKD Delphi panel. Round one is now open, get started now by registering your email online. The Standardised Outcomes in Nephrology – Polycystic Kidney Disease (SONG-PKD) is an international initiative that aims to...
ISN headed to Samoa recently to begin developing partnerships with the medical community on the island. The visit revealed how strengthening the ties between ISN, the Asia Pacific Society of Nephrology (ASPN), the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN) and the National Kidney Foundation Samoa (NKFS) provides valuable training to local doctors...
