COBRRA is out. Don't prescribe Rivaroxaban. Choose Apixaban instead. No COI. Chart taken from pre-publication ISTH 2025 presentation
Apixaban has a half-life of 8-12 hrs and is given twice daily, whereas Rivaroxaban has a 5-9 hr half-life yet is given just once daily. The result is that Rivaroxaban has a high peak-to-trough ratio. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798921/
COBRRA is out. Don't prescribe Rivaroxaban. Choose Apixaban instead. No COI. Chart taken from pre-publication ISTH 2025 presentation
$150,000 fine is peanuts. 45 RESIDENTS DIED. The max potential penalty was $1.5m.. Are our grandparents lives not worth much?
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
Life expectancy is one of the parameters I was keeping an eye on… and warned about years ago before we “opened up” in Australia.
We’ll see how this plays here, but I’m very sad for my country of birth.
"This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?"
Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth Plummeting. 📉
It is a hideous scandal that they can publish a chart as obvious as this and not even mention the words 'covid infections'.
Thank You, Jonathan....
It's was a lot of fun to chat 😊😊🙏🏻
A good documentation of COVID history preserving data for posterity before it is vanished substack.com/home/post/p-...
World Kidney Day is coming, and we’ll celebrate the field’s momentum. This #NephJCshort is a reminder that some practices should stay relics. Extreme dietary restriction feels archaic when modern therapies can hit same renal pathways without the ritualized deprivation
www.nephjc.com/news/2026/2/...
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"Catching COVID significantly raises the risk of developing kidney disease, researchers find"
"The virus was found to increase the chances that patients will develop the incurable condition by around 50 per cent."
Source: archive.md/Z87bA
New Zealand: COVID hospitalisations climb as the country enters a new wave.
COVID deaths are also rising as New Zealand enters its 9th wave.
Wastewater data shows cases are at their highest level in over 6 months
Source: archive.md/ij18m
SARS-CoV-2 Infection Linked to Higher Thyroid-Disease Risk www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Kidneys and Cövid
@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social 🙏🏻
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
"COVID-19 has been the leading cause of acute respiratory infection related mortality across the majority of 2023–2025. In 2025 the number of deaths involving COVID-19 (both due to and with) exceeded the number of deaths involving influenza."
#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOVER
This week's cover @thelancet.com
This #ASNKidney360 study evaluated the concordance of pre-biopsy clinical diagnosis with post-biopsy final diagnosis among patients with clinical AKI. Read the article here: kidney.pub/KID1151 Steve Coca
Since measles is coming back, here's a question:
What is the "half-life" of airborne decay of measles?
Answer: We have no idea. People think it's long (1 to 2 hours).
Why don't we know? Funders largely felt there wasn't a need to measure it since it was managed with vaccines.
PSA: if you have chronic fatigue and have never had your ferritin checked, please do so.
And look at the actual value because the reference range is likely trash. It should be at minimum 30 and ideally 50+
Thank you for your attention.
For those who saw the #ASH abstract but missed the actual publication suggesting IV Fe is safe in sepsis #HaemSky #Nephsky #NephJC
There is a large cohort study showing that IV Fe is safe in sepsis. Presented at ASH 2025 (thanks for the heads-up @shematologist.medsky.social) but now published in Blood #NephJC ashpublications.org/blood/articl...
In DIALIZE-Outcomes, Kidney International SZC improves normokalemia in hemodialysis, but does not reduce arrhythmia-related CV events (HR 0.98). Biochemistry improved; outcomes unchanged.
#ClinicalTrials #Nephrology
It's like living through the French Revolution or WWI, the sky is still blue and superficially things look the same. But the past is a different country. Mark Carney talked about a “rupture” with the post-war order but COVID primed the rupture.
Australian C19 Weekly Update - 20th February 2026
Note: Cases recorded are from PCR testing only. Actual cases are significantly higher.
Data from: nindss.health.gov.au/pbi-dashboard/
Thanks to @angiecibisdesign for the design!
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Excellent overview and explanation of #PostExertionalMalaise by @oonaghcousins.bsky.social and shared with me this morning via the #VisibleHealth app by Harry Leeming 👇
www.makevisible.com/blog/post-ex...
HT Todd @sunsopeningband.bsky.social Davenport 🙏
#LongCovid #PEM #Pacing
I saw one op-ed claim that COVID has left no impact on our “post-COVID world” but it has clearly helped unleash a quackistocracy that goes well beyond healthcare.
I saw one op-ed claim that COVID has left no impact on our “post-COVID world” but it has clearly helped unleash a quackistocracy that goes well beyond healthcare.
Why is this not child abuse?
