A pinch of salt - A podcast by ERA

National and international renal registries have significantly diversified their activities in recent years. The ERA Registry is committed to a wide range of population-based research activities. With extensive accumulated experience and a top-class staff, it is engaged in numerous research projects, cohort studies, and other scientific initiatives. Alberto Ortiz is the Chair of the ERA Registry Committee and is involved in groundbreaking research projects, including assistance with coding and definitions, as well as the EQUAL study. Check it out! 

Being a young doctor must be one of the toughest positions a person can find themselves in. The key to success in medicine is experience which is the one thing you cannot have as a young doctor. That is why having a mentor, or mentors is essential. However, being in contact with your peers is also important. Sharing trials and tribulations with someone your own age is not only comforting but also informative. The world is a global place and contact with young professionals around Europe might be just the thing you need. That’s why we would like to encourage you, dear young nephrologist, to become an active member of the Young Nephrologists’ Platform: the YNP. Find out how you can join the numerous projects available, to gain new experiences, to grow as a person and as a doctor. Have a listen to our new podcast with Orsolya Cseprekál, the current Chair of the YNP to find out more. 

You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Wise words from Joni Mitchell that you might find in her famous song Big Yellow Taxi. People who have never had problems sleeping have absolutely no idea how difficult life becomes when you can’t sleep properly or well enough. It’s literally a nightmare, only you're awake, and it seems like it lasts forever. Unfortunately, this nightmare is incredibly common in CKD patients, particularly in patients with end-stage kidney disease. It’s up to us to identify these patients, because if we don’t do it, it’s unlikely others will. We owe it to them because nowadays we have therapies that can work and help people sleep again. Let’s help people sleep again. Do you want to know how? Learn how to tackle sleep disorders in the podcast with Mark Unruh, a leading expert in sleep disorders in patients with CKD. Who knows, maybe this information will help your life at some point. 

The more time is passing, the more we find the importance and the density of the functional interconnections between the kidney and the heart. If you treat one of them, you might potentially improve the other and the number of therapeutic agents with combined cardiorenal efficacy ever increases. We will have the honor and the pleasure of discussing cardiorenal medicine with Patrick Mark from the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. A specialist on this matter in a most exciting session registered face to face during the ERA Stockholm Congress. Do not hesitate to join us on this fascinating journey of interconnection between the kidney and the heart.