by Dr Fredric Coe | Jun 30, 2018 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, Uncategorized
The web is majestic and grand, but filled with mixtures of good and bad reporting and advice. Here I have picked out of a simple Google search – kidney stones – some sites I can recommend. For these I try to make clear what I see in them as well as...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Jun 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
The most common kind of stone former has no systemic disease as a cause of stones – ‘idiopathic’ stone former means that. Being most common, their treatments rank highest for all physicians who treat stone formers. These articles include the...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Feb 15, 2018 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Gary Curhan and Eric Taylor have given us many insights into how diet might influence kidney stone risk. I think this new article by them and their colleagues a great opportunity for close reading and practical use of a high quality research paper remarkably germane...
by Dr Fredric Coe and Jill Harris, LPN | Nov 6, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Elsewhere we have described an innovative web based course aimed at reducing kidney stone risk factors via improved diet. Briefly, the course helps patients whose physicians have prescribed diet and fluid changes implement those changes, by teaching them to choose the...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 8, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Multiple articles on this site point toward better health from reducing intakes of sodium and refined sugar. They are well referenced and well supported by scientific data. Recently Consumer Reports, an outstanding purveyor of unbiased information to US consumers has...