Chronic kidney disease in African American and Mexican American populations

African Americans and Mexican Americans suffer from disproportionately high rates of end-stage renal disease in comparison with whites from the United States. An improved understanding of both classic and novel chronic kidney disease risk factors among racial/ethnic minorities may help to facilitate improved prevention, screening, and early intervention strategies for all patients at risk for chronic kidney disease-not only in the United States, but on a global level. The economic implications are equally important to inform health policy recommendations and ensure cost-effective allocation of limited resources.     

African American rhinoplasty

This article describes the topographic and surgical anatomy of the African American nose and the surgical techniques used in the authors' practice.     

American surgical biographies

Finding adequate biographical data on a given surgeon can cause great difficulty because of the lack of a single source containing biographies of these people. This article provides short biographies of 15 American surgeons of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries: Henry Jacob Bigelow, Joseph Decatur Bryant, Gurdon Buck, John Murray Carnochan, John Syng Dorsey, George Michael Edebohls, Christian Fenger, George Ryerson Fowler, Arpad Geza Charles Gerster, William Gibson, Frank Hastings Hamilton, William Tod Helmuth, Andrew Jackson Howe, Joseph Pancoast, and John Allan Wyeth.