How to Use nephrology in a Sentence

nephrology

noun
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  • Fred Husserl is a nephrology specialist and has lived in New Orleans since 1972.
    — Chris Smith | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2021
  • Fresenius has been in talks with the UC Irvine’s nephrology group for a little more than a year about setting up the kidney center.
    — Jonathan Winslow, Orange County Register, 10 Apr. 2017
  • The authors of the nephrology study predict a likely additional cost to the U.S. health-care system of at least a billion dollars a year.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Apart from a flurry of responses from his nephrology friends, Klein got hundreds of replies from others.
    — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 12 Jan. 2022
  • At least four children died as a direct result of the infection, according to the head of the nephrology unit, Dr. Belen Arteaga.
    — CNN, 25 Oct. 2017
  • In national surveys, Browne and her colleagues found some nephrology social workers had more than 200 patients at a time.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Her father is the director of the division of nephrology at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
    — Vincent M. Mallozzi, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2016
  • But Korkor, a medical doctor with a specialty in nephrology, isn't content with capturing scenes in his time away from the office.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Some staff will come from UCI’s nephrology clinic, which was recently acquired by Fresenius.
    — Jonathan Winslow, Orange County Register, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Djamali, who is also nephrology division chief at UW Health, said white blood cells will be extracted from a patient’s parent or sibling.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Attention to palliative care in nephrology has lagged behind its use for advanced cancer, for instance.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2021
  • For some specialties — like dermatology and nephrology — the delays were even longer.
    — Michael Hochman, STAT, 6 Nov. 2020
  • For Elaine Kamil, 75, a pediatric nephrology specialist in Los Angeles, immense grief after the unexpected death of her 31-year-old-son physically took a toll on her heart.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Pre-dialysis nephrology care, for example, has been shown to lower death and hospitalization rates.
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But Zimba points to Zambia’s history with nephrology: As recently as 2004, the nation didn’t have the ability to perform dialysis for diabetes patients with failing kidneys, and patients who could afford it were sent to India.
    — Oliver Staley, Quartz Africa, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Since then, the foundation has spent more than $40 million on research, nephrology fellowships and scientific meetings, becoming the largest non-governmental source of PKD research money.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity, 29 June 2018
  • The findings both electrified and polarized the nephrology community.
    — Stephen S. Hall, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Many who do choose family medicine later narrow their focus, subspecializing in nephrology or infectious disease and no longer offer primary care, Wong said.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Worried, the nephrology department staff began asking any kidney transplant recipients who received the vaccines to have their antibody levels tested two weeks after their second shot.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 16 June 2021
  • In addition to recommending the removal of race from the eGFR equation, nephrology researchers are evaluating a handful of different race-free equations that combine creatinine with other biomarkers such as the protein cystatin C.
    — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Science | AAAS, 22 July 2021
  • Boston Children’s Hospital topped the list for the eighth year in a row and landed the No. 1 spot in four specialties: pediatric nephrology, pediatric neurology and neurosurgery, pediatric pulmonology and lung surgery, and pediatric urology.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 15 June 2021
  • In addition to tele-critical care, the hospital has UAB virtual care programs for neurology, infectious disease, and nephrology, the last of which has been especially critical to care for Covid-19 patients with failing kidneys.
    — Katie Palmer, STAT, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Boston Children’s also was ranked No. 1 in the country for pediatric cancer treatment, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, and urology.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
  • Hopkins was ranked nationally in 15 specialties, including being ranked No. 1 in geriatrics, neurology & neurgosurgery, and rheumatology, and No. 2 in nephrology and urology.
    — Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, 30 July 2019
  • Trevino said the hospital has had strong cardiovascular services, emergency care and diabetes, endocrinology, nephrology and pulmonology care.
    — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 22 July 2019
  • Pediatric cardiology is now available, and gastroenterology, nephrology and neurology will be offered in January.
    — Robin Goist, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Specialty care—things like cardiology, nephrology, dermatology and orthopedics—tends to differ tremendously from primary care and urgent care in its accessibility.
    — Jeffrey Wessler, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The staff includes specialists in internal medicine, nephrology, infectious diseases, cardiology, pulmonology and psychiatry, and speech, physical and occupational therapists, but their services are provided only to patients already admitted to RML.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • Such statistical practice has been used in medical specialties like pulmonology, neuropsychology, obstetrics, urology and nephrology.
    — Chelsey R. Carter, Scientific American, 8 July 2021
  • Intensive therapy that continued for a full two weeks after delivery eventually turned the situation around, but not without a cross-discipline effort that included specialists in cardiology, nephrology, endocrinology and neonatology.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2022

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