Preventing bone loss after renal transplantation with bisphosphonates: We can… but should we?

We Can, but Should We?

We can, but should we? After recently reflecting upon our profession as pediatric critical care physicians , I concluded that this one complex question gets asked many times throughout the day – or at least it should. A recent report discussed an emerging paradigm in pediatric critical care medicine (1). With more and more chronic patients filling our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), perha...

Should we treat asymptomatic bacteriuria after renal transplantation?

Infections remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the modern kidney transplantation era [1]. Symptomatic urinary tract infections (UTIs), which are defined as the association of a positive urine culture with the presence of symptoms or signs referable to UTI, are usually divided into lower tract (cystitis) and upper tract (pyelonephritis) infections. It is the most common infection ...

Yes, We Can! (Should We?).

Yes we can, but do we?

In recent decades, a curious demographic phenomenon has emerged in US science. A high and increasing proportion of PhD students and postdocs, especially in the life sciences, are drawn from beyond the shores of North America. The reasons for this are undoubtedly complex. One factor is the widespread perception in the USA that a career in academic science is marked by low salaries, poor job secu...

We can train them, but how can we retain them?

To the Editor: The Department of Surgery at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine is proud of its 100% pass rate in the October 2008 Colleges of Medicine of South Africa examinations held in Durban. Most candidates attended the graduation and joined the 3 who passed in May as registered specialists in general surgery. This represents a stalwart effort on the part of the candidates and their t...