Recent Journal Articles

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

• Mortality Risks for All Causes and Cardiovascular Diseases and Reduced GFR in a Middle-aged Working Population in Taiwan.
  
• A population-based screening for microalbuminuria among relatives of CKD patients: the Kidney Evaluation and Awareness Program in Sheffield (KEAPS).
  
• Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) as a marker of kidney damage.
  
• Visual Impairment in Elderly Patients Receiving Long-term Hemodialysis.
  
• Effects of l-Carnitine on Dialysis-Related Hypotension and Muscle Cramps: A Meta-analysis.
  
• Prevalence of Estimated GFR Reporting Among US Clinical Laboratories.
  
• Variability of Hepatitis B Testing in British Columbian ESRD Patients: The Case to Focus on Implementation of Guidelines.
  
• Meta-analysis of N-Acetylcysteine to Prevent Acute Renal Failure After Major Surgery.
  
• Birth Weight and Stages of CKD: A Case-Control Study in an Australian Population.
  
• Association of obstructive sleep apnea with urinary albumin excretion in essential hypertension: a cross-sectional study.
  
• Association of arachidonate 12-lipoxygenase genotype variation and glycemic control with albuminuria in type 2 diabetes.
  
• Novel OCRL1 mutations in patients with the phenotype of Dent disease.
  
• Urinary protein excretion pattern and renal expression of megalin and cubilin in nephropathic cystinosis.
  
• The Association of Podocin R229Q Polymorphism With Increased Albuminuria or Reduced Estimated GFR in a Large Population-Based Sample of US Adults.
  
• CKD prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa: a call for governmental, nongovernmental, and community support.
  
• Novel COL4A3 mutations in African American siblings with autosomal recessive Alport syndrome.
  
• West Nile Virus Encephalitis in a Renal Transplant Recipient: The Role of Intravenous Immunoglobulin.
  
• Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin and Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery.
  
• Bleeding Complications After Transcutaneous Kidney Biopsy in Patients With Systemic Amyloidosis: Single-Center Experience in 101 Patients.
  
• Recycling wastewater after hemodialysis: an environmental analysis for alternative water sources in arid regions.
  
• Timing of Renal Replacement Therapy Initiation in Acute Renal Failure: A Meta-analysis.
  
• Predicting the Risk of Dialysis and Transplant Among Patients With CKD: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
  
• Risk Factors for Proteinuria in HIV-Infected and -Uninfected Hispanic Drug Users.
  
• Accuracy of patients' reports of comorbid disease and their association with mortality in ESRD.
  
• Nephroangiosclerosis in Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy With Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy: Is NOTCH3 Mutation the Common Culprit?
  
• A Comparison of Urinary Albumin-Total Protein Ratio to Phase-Contrast Microscopic Examination of Urine Sediment for Differentiating Glomerular and Nonglomerular Bleeding.
  
• Primary hyperoxaluria: clinical course, diagnosis, and treatment after kidney failure.
  
• Predictive Value of Nephelometric and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Assays of Urine Albumin for Mortality in a High-Risk Aboriginal Population.
  
• Effect of Sirolimus on Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A 1-Year Nonrandomized Controlled Trial.
  
• Effect of Hyperosmolality on Vasopressin Secretion in Intradialytic Hypotension: A Mechanistic Study.
  
• Acute Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disorders in Patients With Ileostomies: A Case Series.
  
• Successful Retransplantation of a Kidney Allograft Affected by Thrombotic Microangiopathy Into a Second Transplant Recipient.
  
• Hypocalcemia in a Dialysis Patient Treated With Deferasirox for Iron Overload.
  
• Diagnosis of medullary sponge kidney by computed tomographic urography.
  
• Contributory metabolic factors in the development of nephrolithiasis in patients with medullary sponge kidney.
  
• Littoral Cell Angioma of the Spleen Mimicking Posttransplantation Lymphoma in a 63-Year-Old Renal Transplant Patient.
  
• Herbs and the kidney.
  
• GFR Estimated From Cystatin C Versus Creatinine in Children Born Small for Gestational Age.
  
• Depressive disorder in renal transplantation: an analysis of Medicare claims.
  
• Osmotic nephrosis: acute kidney injury with accumulation of proximal tubular lysosomes due to administration of exogenous solutes.
  

Clinical Nephrology

• Mycobacterium avium complex-associated peritonitis in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
  
• Relapse of membranous glomerulopathy after kidney transplantation: sustained remittance induced by rituximab.
  
• The influence of hemodialysis membranes on the plasma insulin level of diabetic patients on maintenance hemodialysis.
  
• Lymphoma-associated hemophagocytic syndrome: a rare cause of severe prerenal acute renal failure.
  
• Oral mizoribine pulse therapy for steroid-dependent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
  
• Mycophenolate mofetil in anti-MPO renal vasculitis: an alternative therapy in case of cyclophosphamide or azathioprine toxicity.
  
• Removal of gadolinium by peritoneal dialysis.
  
• Candida parapsilosis peritonitis complicated with infected pancreatic pseudocysts in a peritoneal dialysis patient: a challenge for nephrologists.
  
• Long-term observation of renal function on combination therapy with prostaglandin and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor for chronic kidney disease.
  
• Expression of pro- and antifibrotic genes in protocol biopsies from renal allografts with interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy.
  
• Profound hypokalemia and hypochloremic metabolic alkalosis during thiazide therapy in a child with Pendred syndrome.
  
• Clinical remission and histopathological resolution of nodular lesions in a patient with gamma3 heavy-chain deposition disease.
  
• Vascular complications of the lower extremities in diabetic patients on peritoneal dialysis.
  
• Perforation of small intestine diverticulum in a maintenance hemodialysis patient.
  
• Efficacy, safety and tolerability of valsartan 80 mg compared to irbesartan 150 mg in hypertensive patients on long-term hemodialysis (VALID study).
  
• Urinary fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase activity as a marker of the damage to the renal proximal tubules in children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome.
  
• Massive proteinuria and acute renal failure after oral bisphosphonate (alendronate) administration in a patient with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
  
• Association between renal cell carcinoma and plasma cell dyscrasias: a case series of six patients.
  
• Aspects of Immune Dysfunction in End-stage Renal Disease.
  
• Protective effect of ganoderan on renal damage in rats with chronic glomerulonephritis.
  
• Efficacy of early dental and ENT therapy in preventing nephropathy in pediatric Henoch-Schönlein purpura.
  
• Predominant tubulointerstitial nephritis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus: phenotype of infiltrating cells.
  
• A reassessment of diagnostic criteria and treatment of idiopathic urticarial vasculitis: a retrospective study of 47 patients.
  
• Revealing a subclinical salt-loosing phenotype in heterozygous carriers of the novel S562P mutation in the alpha subunit of the epithelial sodium channel.
  
• Late-onset nephropathic cystinosis: clinical presentation, outcome, and genotyping.
  
• [Hypophosphatemic rickets/osteomalacia. - Mainly on patients with PHEX mutations -]
  
• X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets associated with respiratory failure.
  
• Calcimimetics as an adjuvant treatment for familial hypophosphatemic rickets.
  
• Adverse Renal and Metabolic Effects Associated with Oral Sodium Phosphate Bowel Preparation.
  
• Renal Phenotype in Lowe Syndrome: A Selective Proximal Tubular Dysfunction.
  
• Importance and repercussions of renal and cardiovascular pathology on stroke in young adults: an anatomopathologic study of 52 clinical necropsies.
  
• Comparative analysis of renal protein expression in spontaneously hypertensive rat.
  
• A familial case of mitochondrial disease resembling Alport syndrome.
  
• Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody disease in Japan: part of the nationwide rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis survey in Japan.
  
• Tubulointerstitial nephritis and IgA nephropathy in a patient with advanced lung cancer treated with long-term gefitinib.
  
• Screening for CKD with eGFR: Doubts and Dangers.
  
• Lithium-induced Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus: Renal Effects of Amiloride.
  
• Renal Lesions Associated with IgM-Secreting Monoclonal Proliferations: Revisiting the Disease Spectrum.
  
• Enterococcal endocarditis associated with crescentic glomerulonephritis.
  
• Early magnesium reduction in advanced colorectal cancer patients treated with cetuximab plus irinotecan as predictive factor of efficacy and outcome.
  
• Validation of Liano score in acute renal failure: a prospective study in Indian patients.
  
• Mutation-based diagnostic testing for primary hyperoxaluria type 1: survey of results.
  
• Osteomalacia revealing cliac disease and primary biliary cirrhosis-related Fanconi syndrome in a patient with systemic sclerosis.
  
• Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Insertion/Deletion Polymorphism and Renoprotection in Diabetic and Nondiabetic Nephropathies.
  
• Cold exposure-induced rhabdomyolysis demonstrated by bone scintigraphy.
  
• Distribution of IgM and IgG antibodies to oxidized LDL in immune complexes isolated from patients with type 1 diabetes and its relationship with nephropathy.
  
• Predictors of renal outcome in HIV-associated nephropathy.
  
• Hepatitis C Is Less Aggressive in Hemodialysis Patients than in Nonuremic Patients.
  
• Percutaneous ultrasound-guided renal biopsy in children â safety, efficacy, indications and renal pathology findings: 14-year Brazilian university hospital experience.
  
• Preservation of renal function in a patient with Fabry nephropathy on enzyme replacement therapy.
  

Kidney International

• The ISN Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee
  
• Oral estrogen therapy is associated with declining renal function in elderly women
  
• BMI is associated with hypertension in women, even within the 'normal' weight range
  
• Waist:hip ratio predicts subsequent chronic kidney disease better than BMI
  
• New study contradicts suggestions of an 'epidemic' of primary hyperaldosteronism
  
• Orally administered tetrahydrobiopterin can reduce hypertension
  
• Should femoral catheterization for acute RRT be avoided to prevent infection?
  
• A single measurement of urinary NGAL can identify acute kidney injury
  
• Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease can be associated with lung abnormalities
  
• Faster CKD progression explains higher ESRD incidence among African Americans with HIV
  
• Mycophenolate mofetil is a less toxic treatment for primary glomerulonephritis
  
• Reasons for, and the need to address, low fistula use in US hemodialysis patients
  
• Heparin contaminant causes adverse effects via the kallikrein system
  
• Pregnancy within 1 year of kidney transplantation does not affect graft survival
  
• Donor CCL2 levels might adversely affect pancreas–kidney graft survival
  
• Assessing the benefits and harms of statin treatment in patients with chronic kidney disease
  
• ACE gene polymorphism and the prognosis and treatment of overt diabetic nephropathy
  
• Antiproteinuric response to dual blockade of the renin–angiotensin system in primary glomerulonephritis
  
• Clopidogrel decreases arteriovenous fistula thrombosis but does not improve fistula maturation
  
• Use of prophylactic topical or intraluminal antibiotics for hemodialysis catheters
  
• Should arteriovenous fistulas and synthetic grafts undergo surveillance with pre-emptive correction of stenosis?
  
• Glycated hemoglobin or glycated albumin for assessment of glycemic control in hemodialysis patients with diabetes?
  
• Immunosuppression minimization protocols: how should they be monitored?
  
• Stemming the obesity–diabetes epidemic: lifestyle changes and therapeutics
  
• Low-molecular-weight heparins should be used with caution in patients with chronic kidney disease
  
• Reversal of proteinuric renal disease and the emerging role of endothelin
  
• How should women with pre-eclampsia be followed up? New insights from mechanistic studies
  
• Treatment of acute kidney injury in children: from conservative management to renal replacement therapy
  
• Treating difficult or disruptive dialysis patients: practical strategies based on ethical principles
  

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

• Physiologic regulation of the epithelial sodium channel by phosphatidylinositides.
  
• Update on the molecular physiology of organic anion transporters.
  
• Renin inhibition: should it supplant ACE inhibitors and ARBS in high risk patients?
  
• Evaluation of recent fixed-dose combination therapies in the management of hypertension.
  
• Do thiazides worsen metabolic syndrome and renal disease? The pivotal roles for hyperuricemia and hypokalemia.
  
• Does dosing antihypertensive drugs at night alter renal or cardiovascular outcome: do we have the evidence?
  
• Mechanism of regulation of renal ion transport by WNK kinases.
  
• Hypertension, antihypertensive therapy and renal-cell cancer: a meta-analysis.
  
• Fibroblast growth factor 23 acts on the parathyroid to decrease parathyroid hormone secretion.
  
• Revisiting the glomerular charge barrier in the molecular era.
  
• Therapeutic targets in focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis.
  
• WNK kinases and essential hypertension.
  
• Hypertensive nephrosclerosis.
  
• Mutagenic capacity of endogenous G4 DNA underlies genome instability in FANCJ-defective C. elegans.
  
• The noncalciotropic actions of vitamin D: recent clinical developments.
  
• Adenosine and renal tubular function.
  
• Vitamin D and the immune system: role in protection against bacterial infection.
  
• The development of the parathyroid gland: from fish to human.
  
• Renalase deficiency in chronic kidney disease, and its contribution to hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
  
• Pathophysiological implications of transient receptor potential channels in vascular function.
  

Seminars in Nephrology

• Vasopressin antagonists in the treatment of water-retaining disorders.
  
• The acute and long-term adverse effects of shock wave lithotripsy.
  
• Vasopressin and aquaporin 2 in clinical disorders of water homeostasis.
  
• Hypertrophy and fibrosis in the cardiomyopathy of uremia-beyond coronary heart disease.
  
• Cystinuria.
  
• Leptospiral nephropathy.
  
• Snakebite nephrotoxicity in Asia.
  
• Cardiac Problems in the Dialysis Patient: Beyond Coronary Disease.
  
• Viral hemorrhagic Fever-induced acute kidney injury.
  
• Nephrotoxicity of insect and spider venoms in latin america.
  
• Snakebite-induced acute kidney injury in latin america.
  
• Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in Africa.
  
• Metabolic syndrome and uric acid nephrolithiasis.
  
• Role of interstitial apatite plaque in the pathogenesis of the common calcium oxalate stone.
  
• The primary hyperoxalurias.
  
• Evaluation of the kidney stone patient.
  
• The roles and mechanisms of intestinal oxalate transport in oxalate homeostasis.
  
• Bone disease and idiopathic hypercalciuria.
  
• Nephrolithiasis after bariatric surgery for obesity.
  
• New insights into the pathogenesis of idiopathic hypercalciuria.
  
• Racial and ethnic disparities in end-stage kidney failure-survival paradoxes in African-Americans.
  
• Vasopressin Receptor Mutations in Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus.
  
• Bypassing vasopressin receptor signaling pathways in nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
  
• Dysregulation of Renal Aquaporins and Epithelial Sodium Channel in Lithium-Induced Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus.
  
• Aquaporin 2 mutations in nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
  
• Vasopressin antagonists in polycystic kidney disease.
  

Nephron

• A conceptual approach to the patient with metabolic acidosis. Application to a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis.
  
• Dexamethasone's Prosurvival Benefits in Podocytes Require Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase Phosphorylation.
  
• No effect of transfusion transmitted virus viremia on the distribution and activation of peripheral lymphocytes in hemodialyzed patients.
  
• Clinical study of heparin-free hemodialysis with the inside of hollow fibers in dialyzer coated by human albumins.
  
• Recurrent lupus nephritis in the second allograft of a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.
  
• Therapeutic approach to hypokalemia.
  
• A case of SIADH induced by mizoribin administration.
  
• Pathogenesis and diagnosis of hyponatremia.
  
• Therapeutic approach to hyperkalemia.
  
• Pathogenesis and treatment of hypernatremia.
  
• Spontaneous bilateral perirenal hematoma in a patient with tetrology of Fallot.
  
• Colchicine-induced myopathy with normal creatine phosphokinase level in a renal transplant patient.
  
• Calcium homeostasis and imbalance.
  
• Therapeutic approach to hyponatremia.
  
• Bartter's, Gitelman's, and Gordon's syndromes. From physiology to molecular biology and back, yet still some unanswered questions.
  
• Validation of the Virga GFR Equation in a Renal Transplant Population.
  
• Microscopic Hematuria and Diabetic Glomerulosclerosis - Clinicopathological Analysis of Type 2 Diabetic Patients Associated with Overt Proteinuria.
  
• Renal ACE and ACE2 Expression in Early Diabetic Rats.
  
• Suppressive effects of rosmarinic acid on mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis in rats.
  
• Cyclosporine or FK506 decrease mature epidermal growth factor protein expression and renal tubular regeneration in rat kidneys with ischemia/reperfusion injury.
  
• Distinct role of nitric oxide and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor in renal microcirculation. Studies in the isolated perfused hydronephrotic kidney.
  
• The Novel NF-kappaB Activation Inhibitor Dehydroxymethyl-Epoxyquinomicin Suppresses Anti-Thy1.1-Induced Glomerulonephritis in Rats.
  

Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation

• Changes in blood pressure before the development of nosocomial acute kidney injury.
  
• Mortality reduction by vitamin D receptor activation in end-stage renal disease: a commentary on the robustness of current data.
  
• Can the choice of intermediate solvent or resin affect glomerular basement membrane thickness?
  
• Plasma B-type natriuretic peptide levels reflect the presence and severity of stable coronary artery disease in chronic haemodialysis patients.
  
• Can we really predict the change in serum sodium levels?--an analysis of currently proposed formulae in hypernatraemic patients.
  
• Vascular calcifications, vertebral fractures and mortality in haemodialysis patients.
  
• Renal dysfunction in acute stroke: an independent predictor of long-term all combined vascular events and overall mortality.
  
• Enhanced clearance of highly protein-bound drugs by albumin-supplemented dialysate during modeled continuous hemodialysis.
  
• Pharmacokinetics of ertapenem in critically ill patients with acute renal failure undergoing extended daily dialysis.
  
• Mycophenolic acid inhibits the autocrine PDGF-B synthesis and PDGF-BB-induced mRNA expression of Egr-1 in rat mesangial cells.
  
• ABO blood group-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation: a prospective, single-centre analysis including serial protocol biopsies.
  
• Renal endothelial function and blood flow predict the individual susceptibility to adriamycin-induced renal damage.
  
• Effect of extracellular fluid volume on single-sample measurement of glomerular filtration rate.
  
• How safe is hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy?--Results of 200 live donor nephrectomies by two different techniques.
  
• Proteomic analysis of mononuclear cells of patients with minimal-change nephrotic syndrome of childhood.
  
• Collapsing glomerulopathy and haemophagocytic syndrome related to malaria: a case report.
  
• A positive effect of AII inhibitors on peritoneal membrane function in long-term PD patients.
  
• The effects of gestational age and growth restriction on compensatory kidney growth.
  
• Tandem plasmapheresis and haemodialysis as a safe procedure in 82 patients with immune-mediated disease.
  
• Pseudohypoaldosteronisms, report on a 10-patient series.
  

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

• Serum Alkaline Phosphatase Predicts Mortality among Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients.
  
• Ischemia-Induced Exocytosis of Weibel-Palade Bodies Mobilizes Stem Cells.
  
• Hemopexin Induces Nephrin-Dependent Reorganization of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Podocytes.
  
• Complement 5a Receptor Inhibition Improves Renal Allograft Survival.
  
• FGFR3 and FGFR4 Do not Mediate Renal Effects of FGF23.
  
• TLR4 Facilitates Translocation of Bacteria across Renal Collecting Duct Cells.
  
• Antibodies with Dual Reactivity to Plasminogen and Complementary PR3 in PR3-ANCA Vasculitis.
  
• Single Amino Acid Substitution in Aquaporin 11 Causes Renal Failure.
  
• The Practical Utility of an Economic Analysis of Calcineurin Withdrawal following Renal Transplantation.
  
• Pathology, Clinical Presentations, and Outcomes of C1q Nephropathy.
  
• Cinacalcet Reduces the Set Point of the PTH-Calcium Curve.
  
• CD19+CD5+ B Cells in Primary IgA Nephropathy.
  
• Statin Use Is Associated with Prolonged Survival of Renal Transplant Recipients.
  
• CTGF Inhibits BMP-7 Signaling in Diabetic Nephropathy.
  
• TCF7L2 Variants Associate with CKD Progression and Renal Function in Population-Based Cohorts.
  
• Low-Dose Growth Hormone is Cardioprotective in Uremia.
  
• Generation and evolution of atubular glomeruli in the progression of renal disorders.
  
• Molecular determinants of magnesium homeostasis: insights from human disease.
  
• The role of osteopontin in the development of albuminuria.
  
• Association of a CYP4A11 variant and blood pressure in black men.
  
• GDF15 Triggers Homeostatic Proliferation of Acid-Secreting Collecting Duct Cells.
  
• Role of environmental toxins in endemic (Balkan) nephropathy. October 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.
  
• Hantavirus Nephropathy.
  
• Differential effects of rapamycin in anti-GBM glomerulonephritis.
  
• T-bet deficiency attenuates renal injury in experimental crescentic glomerulonephritis.
  
• The Current State of Poststreptococcal Glomerulonephritis.
  
• Endotoxin mediates recruitment of RNA polymerase II to target genes in acute renal failure.
  
• HIV-1 upregulates VEGF in podocytes.
  
• Racial differences in end-stage renal disease rates in HIV infection versus diabetes.
  
• Gq-Dependent Signaling Upregulates COX2 in Glomerular Podocytes.
  
• Intragraft Levels of Foxp3 mRNA Predict Progression in Renal Transplants with Borderline Change.
  
• Of Men and Mice: Who Is in Control of Renal Phosphate Reabsorption?
  
• Donor Ethnicity Influences Outcomes following Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation in Black Recipients.
  
• Inhibition of Renal Rho Kinase Attenuates Ischemia/Reperfusion-Induced Injury.
  
• Inhibition of SNAT2 by Metabolic Acidosis Enhances Proteolysis in Skeletal Muscle.
  
• Mechanisms of Renal Apoptosis in Health and Disease.
  
• Paricalcitol Inhibits Renal Inflammation by Promoting Vitamin D Receptor-Mediated Sequestration of NF-{kappa}B Signaling.
  
• Overexpression of Calmodulin in Pancreatic {beta} Cells Induces Diabetic Nephropathy.
  
• Fidelity and Evolution of Recurrent FSGS in Renal Allografts.
  
• NKT Cells Inhibit the Development of Experimental Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.
  
• Ferumoxytol for Treating Iron Deficiency Anemia in CKD.
  
• Sodium Excretion in Response to Vasopressin and Selective Vasopressin Receptor Antagonists.
  
• Activator Protein 2{alpha} Mediates Parathyroid TGF-{alpha} Self-Induction in Secondary Hyperparathyroidism.
  
• Racial Differences in Urinary Potassium Excretion.
  
• Oscillating Cortical Thick Ascending Limb Cells at the Juxtaglomerular Apparatus.
  
• Lifetime Cost-Effectiveness of Calcineurin Inhibitor Withdrawal After De Novo Renal Transplantation.
  
• Marconi Revisited: From Kidney to Brain--Two Organ Systems Communicating at Long Distance.
  
• Acute tubular necrosis is a syndrome of physiologic and pathologic dissociation.
  
• Heme Oxygenase-1 Deficiency Promotes Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and Renal Fibrosis.
  
• NPHS2 variation in sporadic focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
  

Journal of the American Medical Association

• Effect of physical activity on cognitive function in older adults at risk for Alzheimer disease: a randomized trial.
  
• Awareness and Use of California's Paid Family Leave Insurance Among Parents of Chronically Ill Children.
  
• Lead, mercury, and arsenic in US- and Indian-manufactured Ayurvedic medicines sold via the Internet.
  
• Benefits and risks of tight glucose control in critically ill adults: a meta-analysis.
  
• Nut, corn, and popcorn consumption and the incidence of diverticular disease.
  
• Arsenic exposure and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in US adults.
  
• Mortality and cardiovascular events in patients treated with homocysteine-lowering B vitamins after coronary angiography: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• Intimate partner violence and HIV infection among married Indian women.
  
• Prevalence of chronic pain after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review.
  
• BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS: Hospital Preparation for Bioterror: A Medical and Biomedical Systems Approach
  
• MEDICAL NEWS and PERSPECTIVES: Psychiatrists Strive to Help Children Heal Mental Wounds From War and Disasters
  
• Estimation of HIV incidence in the United States.
  
• Highly active antiretroviral therapy and survival in HIV-infected injection drug users.
  
• Outcomes of nevirapine- and efavirenz-based antiretroviral therapy when coadministered with rifampicin-based antitubercular therapy.
  
• Low-dose physiological growth hormone in patients with HIV and abdominal fat accumulation: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• Risk factors for recent HIV infection in Uganda.
  
• ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Estimation of HIV Incidence in the United States
  
• Tuberculosis among foreign-born persons in the United States.
  
• Sildenafil treatment of women with antidepressant-associated sexual dysfunction: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• Opportunities and challenges for HIV care in overlapping HIV and TB epidemics.
  
• Effect of simvastatin on cognitive functioning in children with neurofibromatosis type 1: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS: The Making of a Tropical Disease--A Short History of Malaria
  
• African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1846-1968: Origins of a Racial Divide.
  
• Ankle brachial index combined with Framingham Risk Score to predict cardiovascular events and mortality: a meta-analysis.
  
• Fetuin-A and incident diabetes mellitus in older persons.
  
• Association between the Medicare modernization act of 2003 and patient wait times and travel distance for chemotherapy.
  
• Survival following primary androgen deprivation therapy among men with localized prostate cancer.
  
• CORRECTION: Incorrect Numbers in Table in: Effect of Homocysteine Lowering on Mortality and Vascular Disease in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease and End-stage Renal Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  
• ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Association Between the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and Patient Wait Times and Travel Distance for Chemotherapy
  
• Effectiveness of home blood pressure monitoring, Web communication, and pharmacist care on hypertension control: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• Ketosis-prone type 2 diabetes mellitus and human herpesvirus 8 infection in sub-saharan africans.
  
• A 70-year-old man with a transient ischemic attack: review of internal carotid artery stenosis.
  
• Early invasive vs conservative treatment strategies in women and men with unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis.
  
• Changes in the risk of death after HIV seroconversion compared with mortality in the general population.
  
• Outcomes following coronary stenting in the era of bare-metal vs the era of drug-eluting stents.
  
• Electromagnetic interference from radio frequency identification inducing potentially hazardous incidents in critical care medical equipment.
  
• Intra-individual change over time in DNA methylation with familial clustering.
  
• HEALTH AGENCIES UPDATE: Kidney Disease in Blacks
  
• FROM THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: Report From the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Decision Not to Recommend Routine Vaccination of All Children Aged 2-10 Years With Quadrivalent Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine (MCV4
  
• Prostate cancer-specific survival following salvage radiotherapy vs observation in men with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy.
  
• Examining a bidirectional association between depressive symptoms and diabetes.
  
• Association of cholesteryl ester transfer protein genotypes with CETP mass and activity, lipid levels, and coronary risk.
  
• The role of chemotherapy at the end of life: "when is enough, enough?".
  
• Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort) for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• Clinical implications of QRS duration in patients hospitalized with worsening heart failure and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction.
  
• Effect of bright light and melatonin on cognitive and noncognitive function in elderly residents of group care facilities: a randomized controlled trial.
  
• ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Effect of Bright Light and Melatonin on Cognitive and Noncognitive Function in Elderly Residents of Group Care Facilities: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  
• PERSPECTIVES ON CARE AT THE CLOSE OF LIFE: The Role of Chemotherapy at the End of Life: "When Is Enough, Enough?"
  
• ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Clinical Implications of QRS Duration in Patients Hospitalized With Worsening Heart Failure and Reduced Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
  
• Patient-important outcomes in registered diabetes trials.
  

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

• Racial and ethnic differences in trends of end-stage renal disease: United States, 1995 to 2005.
  
• Iron indices and vitamin D receptor polymorphisms in hemodialysis patients.
  
• Self-efficacy and self-management behaviors in patients with chronic kidney disease.
  
• Long-term renal outcomes after delayed graft function.
  
• Chronic kidney disease risk reduction in a Hispanic population through pharmacist-based disease-state management.
  
• Community-partnered approaches to enhance chronic kidney disease awareness, prevention, and early intervention.
  
• Ethical issues in the care of vulnerable chronic kidney disease patients: the elderly, cognitively impaired, and those from different cultural backgrounds.
  
• State approaches to stem toll of chronic kidney disease.
  
• Potential impact of Medicare Part D in the end-stage renal disease population.
  
• Reducing the burden of chronic kidney disease among American Indians.
  

New England Journal of Medicine

• EARLY RELEASE: Stroke Prevention -- Insights from Incoherence
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Toll-like Receptor 3 and Geographic Atrophy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Telmisartan to Prevent Recurrent Stroke and Cardiovascular Events
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Aspirin and Extended-Release Dipyridamole versus Clopidogrel for Recurrent Stroke
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Ezetimibe and Cancer -- An Uncertain Association
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Intensive Lipid Lowering with Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Analyses of Cancer Data from Three Ezetimibe Trials
  
• EARLY RELEASE: Identifying and Addressing Safety Signals in Clinical Trials
  
• PERSPECTIVE: Guns and Suicide in the United States
  
• PERSPECTIVE: Drug Warnings That Can Cause Fits -- Communicating Risks in a Data-Poor Environment
  
• PERSPECTIVE: Close Calls
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Quality of Life with Defibrillator Therapy or Amiodarone in Heart Failure
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Prognostic Importance of Defibrillator Shocks in Patients with Heart Failure
  
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Hyponatremia and Mortality among Patients on the Liver-Transplant Waiting List
  
• CLINICAL PRACTICE: Hereditary Angioedema
  
• REVIEW ARTICLE: Current Concepts: Current Management of Acute Cutaneous Wounds
  
• IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: Bedbug Bites
  
• IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: Austin Flint Murmur
  
• CLINICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING: Collateral Damage
  
• EDITORIAL: The FDA and Tobacco Regulation
  
• EDITORIAL: Life and Death after ICD Implantation
  
• EDITORIAL: Predicting Mortality in Cirrhosis -- Serum Sodium Helps
  
• CLINICAL DECISIONS: Management of Skin and Soft-Tissue Infection
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Aliskiren Combined with Losartan in Diabetes and Nephropathy
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Methylnaltrexone for Opioid-Induced Constipation in Advanced Illness
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Cancer Immunotherapy
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Cricothyroidotomy
  
• CORRESPONDENCE: Fatal Oseltamivir-Resistant Influenza Virus Infection
  
• BOOK REVIEW: Complications in Anesthesiology
  
• BOOK REVIEW: Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care; Trauma: Contemporary Principles and Therapy
  
• BOOK REVIEW: Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America