Innovation District: Does ZIP code factor into genitourinary system health?

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Does ZIP code factor into genitourinary system health? Clinicians suspect that taking probiotics may prevent urinary diseases that occur in pediatric patients. A research team led by Children’s faculty is also exploring whether changes in the built environment affect the urinary microbiome. Schistosoma molecule downregulates proinflammatory pathways A therapy derived from the eggs of the parasitic Schistosoma helps to protect against one of chemotherapy’s debilitating side effects by significantly downregulating major proinflammatory pathways, reducing inflammation. Treating nephrotic-range proteinuria with tacrolimus A 7-month-old girl with mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency arrived at Children’s National with a low corrected serum calcium level, elevated CK level and protein in the urine (proteinuria) at a nephrotic range. She was treated with the calcineurin inhibitor tacrolimus, and eight months later, her urine protein-to-creatinine ratio was back to normal. Which micro-organisms lurk within urine? Gone is the conventional thinking that “healthy” urine is sterile. Emerging research indicates that a variety of bacteria thrive in urine, and some of these bacterial hitchhikers have beneficial properties for the genitourinary system. Use our quiz to test your knowledge of some of the variety of micro-organisms that reside in the human bladder. Breakthrough device objectively measures pain type and intensity Pediatric anesthesiologist Julia C. Finkel, M.D., of Children’s National Health System, has developed AlgometRx, a first-of-its-kind handheld device that measures a patient’s pupillary response and, using proprietary algorithms, provides a diagnostic measurement of pain intensity, pain type and, after treatment is administered, monitors efficacy.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta.) Innovative urologist Michael Hsieh takes unbeaten path Children’s urologist Michael H. Hsieh, M.D., Ph.D., knew from age 10 that he would become a doctor. Proof is at his parents’ home. For an elementary school art project, students were instructed to fashion a coat of arms out of clay. In addition to panels for truth, justice and Taiwan, in the shield’s M.D. panel, a snake twists around a rod, like the staff for Asclepius, a Greek god associated with healing.

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