by Dr Fredric Coe | Sep 29, 2022 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
A new video about how science works What is it About? All we know about kidney stones arose at one time or another from scientific research. The same for everything on this site. Beyond the borders of stone disease, one might say this for all of physical modernity. No...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Jun 6, 2021 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Since women and men differ in so many ways, why not expect differences in how and why they form kidney stones? They do differ, and in ways that can matter as we try to prevent new stones and think about what is most likely to work best for each. The haunting and...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Jun 2, 2021 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
I love the blurry pixillated image of OTC medication crowded onto shelves. Somehow it conveys armies of hopefuls pushing forward into the harried buyer who wants a remedy. The title points to 9 hopefuls for kidney stone prevention. WHAT AM I OFFERING? My friends at...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Apr 1, 2021 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Let me put the main points first, so you know what you are going to read about. Kidney stone formers have increased pregnancy risks for prematurity, need for C-section, low birth weight newborns, gestational diabetes, and preeclampsia. To write about all this I did a...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 26, 2020 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
The title is my story’s conclusion. We know that calcium phosphate crystals in plaque, plugs, and the vast majority of stones are hydroxyapatite, yet when we measure supersaturation with respect to calcium phosphate we measure that for brushite, the pretty...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 4, 2020 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, Site Logic
Empirical science is ancient beyond imagining, for it is nothing more than the modern version of exploring to find out what is there. Don’t you do it after checking in to the hotel in a city new to you? Go out on the streets and see what is going on, where...
