Treatments and guidelines are created in the hopes of improving public health. However, the research foundations designing these guidelines have created an enormous sex imbalance in the field. During the second week of October, The American Physiology Society…
Most of us go to sleep and wake up around the same time every day, even on the weekends when we try to sleep in. When we change our schedule to either wake up earlier or because we…
When we think of the most common causes of kidney failure, usually we think of hypertension and diabetes. The prevalence of hypertension and diabetes in US is approximately 30% and 10%, respectively, and there is no question about…
Let me start with a folktale: an old and very senile king wants to know which of his daughters loves him the most. The elder sister says she cherishes him more than the whole kingdom. The younger one,…
Educating patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is unique, as patients typically witness the course of the disease in their affected family members. This is often a parent, but due to the complexities of life including…
