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Kidney Stones and Pregnancy
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...
Brushite: Key to Calcium Stone Prevention
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 crystal in...
Video: Empirical Research
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 things are?...
Video: Overview of Science
This entire site concerns the science from which we have derived what we offer to patients for prevention of kidney stones. Every article rests on a base of established and peer reviewed science. We Have Always Had a Science Page For years I have posted articles about...
1969
While half of the world was at Woodstock, I was planning a program for which I had no real model. So I made it up as best I could The press photo shows a Chicago policeman donating blood for his partner who was injured in the line of duty - Michael Reese Hospital...
MY SCIENCE 1968 AND BEFORE
In 1968, I was near the end of my training in renal medicine, at University of Texas SW Medical school,Dallas, and it was time to plan my next few years. I had a job, back at the school I graduated from - University of Chicago - stationed at Michael Reese Hospital. I...