Tuesday, November 10, 2009

“Find locations near you for both the seasonal and H1N1 flu vaccine http://bit.ly/4nOr53” -@google

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Today's xkcd (my favorite webcomic): "Organ Donor." http://xkcd.com/659/

Halloween at the White House


P103109PS-0527, originally uploaded by The White House.

Friday, November 6, 2009

"If Health Care Is Going to Change, Dr. Brent James's Ideas Will Change It" - NYT http://ping.fm/jrz8Y

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Receiving the H1N1 nasal vaccine is anticlimactic. "Flu nasal drowning" was a misnomer.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The Uroplakins (Via the Renal Fellow Network)

The uroplakins form tiny, hexagonal arrays of particles--visualized best by electron microscopy (see figure taken from this excellent recent KI review by Wu et al)--which comprise structures called "urothelial plaques" that overlie the plasma membrane of superficial umbrella cells of the urothelium...
Read more here.

Amazon Best Books of 2009: http://ping.fm/soOWG

Fall


Credit: Baard Overgaard Hansen http://www.pixum.com

http://bestc.am/LUN5

Friday, October 30, 2009

Bodybuilding with steroids damages kidneys. http://ping.fm/cgLJs (One of the more unusual & controversial papers I've co-authored.)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

WolframAlpha Searches: Potassium in Lime Juice? http://ping.fm/kdW7Q

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

"Does anyone have any ideas about how to reconstruct my abdomen?" Heart-wrenching necrotizing fasciitis case in NEJM. http://ping.fm/PCQHp

Atypical Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome in the New England Journal of Medicine

Thrombotic microangiopathyImage by roboonya via Flickr

Every physician has diseases they see improbably often. For me, one of these conditions is hemolytic-uremic syndrome. Since writing one of my first papers on HUS as a resident — "De novo thrombotic microangiopathy in renal transplant recipients" — I've seen way more of it than you'd expect.

For kidney fans, this review article on atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome in this month's New England Journal of Medicine (subscription required) is a must read. It details recent advances in the genetics of atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome. What was previously a confusing mess of similar-appearing diseases — hemolytic-uremic syndrome, atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome, drug-induced hemolytic-uremic syndrome, and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura — may finally be understandable.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Flu Virus Animation


Via NPR.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Dr. Brad Berk, University of Rochester Medical Center CEO, discusses his spinal cord injury on YouTube: http://ping.fm/x7hp2

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

David Pogue Interviews Dr. Blumenthal, US Electronic Medical Records Czar http://ping.fm/Y7t1G

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The Electrolyte Composition of the Dead Sea. http://ping.fm/muQcP

Monday, October 12, 2009

List of Kidney Diseases Updated

Picture of kidneyImage via Wikipedia

I've updated the list of kidney diseases for patients. Please let me know if I missed anything.

“Medical students at UMDNJ required to have an Apple iPhone or iPod touch http://bit.ly/103xEw” -@DrJosephKim

A med/peds hospitalist writes on resources for nephrology: http://ping.fm/94qYQ

Sunday, October 11, 2009

"Regulation Works."