Medical Blogs

Dengue, Malaria, HIV Cure, and Others — First Cold Snap of the Winter ID Link-o-Rama • December 10, 2025

Absolutely brutal temperatures arrived up here in Boston over the past week, just in time for the peak holiday season, and we’ve even had a dusting of snow. Here’s proof, in case you don’t believe me. Of course, this isn’t stopping teenage boys from walking to high school in just shorts and sweatshirt hoodies, which […] Read More

• ID Things to Be Grateful for — 2025 Edition
• When AI Gets the Medical Advice Wrong — and Right
• Hot Takes from IDWeek: CDC, COVID, and Two Doses of Dalbavancin

Developing Resident Educators • August 19, 2022 • Brandon Temte, DO

We currently find ourselves at the start of another academic year. By this time in August, many medical trainees are settling into new roles. Recently graduated medical students are getting used to hearing Dr. before their name. New senior residents who were interns a short time ago now find themselves leaders of their own teams. […] Read More

• Beginnings
• Uncertainty in Medicine — The “July Effect” and Beyond
• 10 Tips for July (and Beyond)

Podcast 301: Monkeypox — what to look for, how to treat • August 19, 2022

A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE.

This time, we look to New York for guidance on recognizing and treating monkeypox.

Dr. Eric Meyerowitz of Montefiore and Dr. Stephen Baum of Einstein will lead you through the monkeypox thicket in a 17-minute chat.

Included below is information for patients as well as links to some key articles of interest to clinicians.

LINKS:

For patients: Dr. Barry Zingman’s “Monkeypox — What you need to know”

For clinicians:

• NEJM article on monkeypox in 16 countries
• NEJM Case Records of the Mass. General Hospital on the state’s first case
• Stephen Baum’s summary of a paper in Emerging Infectious Diseases describing viral persistence on fomites

• Podcast 300: NADIM II trial offers “quite exciting” results in lung cancer
• Podcast 299: Lung cancer and atezolizumab — results from the IMpower010 trial
• Podcast 298: COPD exacerbations — 7 days of antibiotics versus 2