An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
June 25th, 2016
ID Cartoon Caption Contest Closed — Time to Vote
The response to our First Ever ID Cartoon Caption Contest was gratifyingly brisk, with hundreds of entries. Not going to lie about this — we were somewhat concerned the response would be silence … you know, as in <<crickets>> … but you readers proved very much up to the task, with numerous funny suggestions. Our sophisticated computer […]
June 19th, 2016
ID Cartoon Caption Contest
The New Yorker magazine is justifiably famous for its fine writing, with its contributors a veritable Who’s Who of famous authors and journalists of the past century. Truman Capote, Ann Beattie, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Dorothy Parker, E.B. White, Philip Roth, Alice Munro, John Hersey, Malcolm Gladwell, Roger Angell, James Thurber … you […]
June 12th, 2016
Progress in Lyme Disease Badly Needed — Could a “Hackathon” Help?
Someone recently asked what keeps me, a specialist in Infectious Diseases, up at night. With the admission that I do all my clinical work here in the USA — a person working in the tropics would undoubtedly have a different list — several challenging patient care and public health issues came to mind. Multidrug-resistant bacteria. Endovascular infections […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
Associate Editor
NEJM Clinician
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