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July 29th, 2013
CROI 2014: March 3-6, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, North America, Earth
Ok, that’s one mystery solved. (We’ll do our best to have the ice and snow cleared away by then, but no promises — New England weather is the very definition of unpredictable.) And now that we know the CROI 2014 dates, here’s some good news: I hear they’re working on getting the 2015 dates squared away […]
July 23rd, 2013
Guess it Wasn’t the Acyclovir After All
Big news in baseball land is that superstar Ryan Braun has been suspended for the rest of the season for using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). And why is this information in an Infectious Diseases blog? Three main reasons: When Braun first got nabbed for PEDs in 2011, it was widely rumored it had something to […]
July 20th, 2013
There’s No US News & World Report Infectious Diseases Ranking — Is That A Good Thing?
As the internet burns through traditional print media, decimating anything paper in its path, several odd things have happened beyond simply putting those newspapers, magazines, and journals out of business. For example, Gourmet was subsumed into Bon Appetit — who could have predicted that? PLoS One and its ilk were born. And what about the […]
July 14th, 2013
Will Dolutegravir Instantly Become the Integrase Inhibitor of Choice in Patients with Treatment Failure?
Here’s the short answer : Yes. Probably. And here’s why. In a randomized, double blind clinical trial just published in the Lancet — it’s called SAILING — once-daily dolutegravir was compared to twice daily raltegravir in treatment-experienced patients. The site investigators could choose one or two other fully active agents to develop an optimized background […]
July 7th, 2013
Almost Annual Whine About No CROI Dates, and a New Temporary (I Hope) CROI Website
Believe or not, sometimes we know a year in advance the dates of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). For example, we learned at the beginning of CROI 2010 that in 2011, it would take place February 27-March 3 — in Boston no less. Yay! (The meeting was a bit shorter, but it did […]
July 3rd, 2013
First Year ID Fellows — What Do They Learn, and What Do They Hate?
In the weird calendar of academic medical centers, July 1 is the “official” first day of school. In our ID program, however, we shifted it to July 5 a few years ago to avoid the interruption of the July 4 holiday at the beginning of the year. On July 3 — today — our incoming […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
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