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Alemtuzumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody that targets CD52 antigens on lymphocytes and monocytes, has shown efficacy in preventing relapse in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Despite known severe (yet rare) renal side effects such as anti-glomerular basement membrane disease and membranous glomerulopathy, to our knowledge, alemtuzumab has never been documented to cause drug-induced thrombotic microangiopathy. We describe a 39-year-old woman with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis who developed acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy after 1 dose of alemtuzumab, as well as microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia. Pathologic examination of a kidney biopsy specimen demonstrated extensive cortical necrosis and arteriolar fibrin thrombi with nonspecific immunofluorescence staining of immunoglobulin M and C3 and absence of immune deposits on electron microscopy. These findings were consistent with the diagnosis of acute thrombotic microangiopathy. She received dexamethasone and underwent plasmapheresis, which was unsuccessful at removing alemtuzumab. The patient received renal replacement therapy for approximately 7 weeks, followed by slow recovery of kidney function that returned close to her baseline.

The article reports that American trumpeters including P. Bradley Ulrich, Grant Peters, and Eric Yates traveled to Moscow, Russia on September 27, 2009 to perform on the 7th Annual International Trumpet Festival. It states that during the festival Ulrich performed Neruda's Concerto, Peters, in Haydn Concerto, and Yates in Hummel Concerto. It notes that they are also invited to travel to Russian Military Music Academy in Moscow to show a mastercalss with Vlad Lavrik of Russian National Orchestra.

The article features the U.S. Military All-Stars baseball team formed in 1990 and based in San Diego, California. The aim of the team is to promote awareness of all citizens in support of the sacrifices the armed forces make. According to team president retired Lieutenant Commander Terry Allvord, the team allows people an opportunity to join the military and serve in a different way. Allvord also related how he started the team with the encouragement from former president George H. W. Bush.