HYPERTENSION IS more likely to develop in women with high but normal albumin/creatinine ratios (ACRs) than in women with lower ACRs, according to a new analysis of data from the Nurses' Health Studies (NHS).

When Florida physician Bernd Wollschlaeger, MD, asked an elderly female CKD patient to tell him all the medications she was taking, she listed four or five. When he asked her to bring her medications to her next visit, however, she brought in a shoebox filled with 84 different supplements. He asked her why she had not mentioned these at the previous visit, and she responded, "Well, these aren't medications; they're supplements, so I didn't think they mattered."

An engineered version of the common-cold virus could indicate within days, rather than weeks or months, whether treatment has halted the spread of prostate cancer.

WHAT DO you know about the pathologists analyzing your patients' specimens? Are you sure the person signing off on the report is qualified to do so? How many other slides has the pathologist looked at that day? That year? Does the lab pay its pathologists using a system that encourages productivity beyond the point of proficiency and into the realm where quantity is more important than quality?