Kidney Disease

Tomorrow is World Kidney Day – Coddle your kidneys!

transplant | March 7, 2012 | Comments (0)

Tomorrow, March 8, is World Kidney Day. But the transplant doctors at Barnes-Jewish Hospital won’t exactly be celebrating. You see, they’d rather not be in the kidney transplant business. Don’t get me wrong – they love being able to save people’s lives and get them off of dialysis and back to normal living. They just [...]

Featured Physician – Dr. Daniel Brennan, Nephrologist

bjh_blog | July 26, 2011 | Comments (0)

As a nephrologist here at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Dr. Daniel Brennan gets to see many patients who are struggling with kidney issues. If you ask him what he likes most about his job, he says it’s the transformation he sees after his patients have a kidney transplant – especially when it comes to color and mood. [...]

Bad breath can mean more than just halitosis

bjh_blog | April 26, 2011 | Comments (0)

Do you use the hand-check or air-sniff test when checking how your breath smells? Or are you one of those lucky folks whose significant other check it for you? Sometimes our breath can be bad because of something we ate. Other times, we might have a bad tooth which causes the offensive smell. It could [...]

Andrea Sharos, transplant coordinator, helps to raise money for her favorite cause, the NKF's Kidney Walk

bjh_blog | June 28, 2010 | Comments (3)

Every year the Missouri Chapter of the National Kidney Foundation puts on its annual fund-raising event the kidney walk. The money raised in this event goes to providing community education and screening programs for the early detection of kidney disease, research, and assistance for needy families struggling with kidney disease. I’ve worked in Kidney/Pancreas Transplant [...]