It gives me a great feeling when nephrologists and other medical professionals are recognizing that we are not properly educating our kidney failure (ESRD- those with End Stage Renal Disease) patients about all the options they may have.
Continue reading Increase the Number of Kidney Transplants
I have been enjoying the postseason baseball experience (where the Phillies are managing to be the giant killers for both leagues). Yeah, except for last night- a night of ignominy…
Continue reading Quinquagenary This Past Sunday
If you really want to deal with that superstition, you are welcome to review one of my older posts, Triskaidekaphobia…
Continue reading Yes, it’s Friday the 13th- but I have more important things to discuss
I just read an article (that is now being broadcast from newspapers, radio, and TV- remember, this post was written weeks ago) that really ticked me off. Supposedly, it is good science. And, it may be- as long as we get (as Paul Harvey used to say) “the rest of the story”.
Continue reading Kidney Transplant Criteria
I know, I know, I’m old.
Back when I was considering colleges, this place was called Drexel Tech. Even when I applied to grad/med schools, that’s what it was.
Now, it’s Drexel University- a hop, skip, and jump away from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. (Right next door to Union Station- the grand railroad depot- in Philly, too!) And, it even houses a medical school- and a school of public health now!
Continue reading What Hath Obamacare Wrought?
Well, this is getting interesting. After all these years of having Fresenius and DaVita swallowing up dialysis centers, there is change coming.
Continue reading Move Over. There’s a new guy in town!
An Executive Order.
Yup. TheDonald issued another one on the 10th of July; this one will change the way dialysis and transplants happen in America.
Continue reading The Future for Kidney Care
Way, way back in the 1960s and 1970s, the NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a unit of the National Institutes of Health [NIH]) ran a series of programs to promote the development of better treatments to address kidney failure.
Continue reading Spurring on Innovation for ESRD
I had to call in a lifeline today (when this was written). Because I was reading an article that was ticking me off; it made no sense to me.
Continue reading Not government pork?
Do you know what it feels like to have a tremendous solution, one that can save lives, one that can make a difference to so many- and have to wait for the world to recognize the value of what you have?
Continue reading Predicitions- way better than what Carnac offered!