Google Hangout in 90 minutes!

NephJC will be doing a live Google Hangout tonight, Tuesday at 9pm EDT. We will have Somjot Brar, the lead author of POSEIDON and Peter McCullough cardiologist and expert on contrast nephropathy joining Joel Topf.

We will try to take questions from people watching, so tweet your questions with the hashtag #NephJC and we will forward them on to our panel of experts.

At the end of the discussion we will announce the next NephJC article.



We have a winner to the coffee challenge!

Last week in the e-mail announcement for the TweetChat we had a trivia contest. We asked what has more sugar, a lightly sweetened cup of coffee or all of the plasma in all of the body of an euglycemic adult?

Almost immediatly we got the following tweet:

Which is correct! Eoin will be enjoying his lightly sweetened coffee from a new NephJC coffee mug just as soon as the boat delivers it across the pond. Congratulations Eoin!

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Next #NephJC is POSEIDAN from the Lancet

This study dropped a couple of weeks ago and we pushed up the list to go next week on NephJC.

Look for a full introduction on the NephJC home page in the next couple of days.

Programming Note: due to the fact that I want to remain married, we will be changing the date of the next #NephJC from Tuesday to Wednesday June 25th due to my 14th wedding anniversary.

Hangout #3 is in the can

We had a great discussion tonight with Joel and Swapnil being joined by the Dean of Sodium, Dr. Richard Sterns of the University of Rochester and Dr. Hatim Hassam of the University of Chicago. Check it out.

This is a follow up discussion from our Tweet Chat on June 10. Selected panelists will continue the conversation on the clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hyponatraemia. This might be the first non-traditional subject for a journal club but it will not be the last.

When Dr. Goldfarb complains he gets results

We received his tweet

We replied with some snark

But then we fixed the page on the website.

Old website implying that hyponatremia is a sodium problem...

Old website implying that hyponatremia is a sodium problem...

...but any nephrologist worth his salt will tell you that hyponatremia is a water problem.

...but any nephrologist worth his salt will tell you that hyponatremia is a water problem.