An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
March 25th, 2017
HIV and Hepatitis C Are No Longer the Most Serious Infectious Threats to People Who Inject Drugs
I had dinner with my daughter Mimi the other evening, and was ruminating about how things have changed since I started work as an Infectious Diseases doctor around 25 years ago. Here’s an excerpt of our chat: Me: There are way more cases of endocarditis in young people than there used to be, a complication of injecting drugs. People in their […]
March 19th, 2017
What Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price Should Be Saying About Required Immunizations
In case you missed it, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price said this past week that the states should make decisions about mandatory vaccination policies. Here’s the actual clip: HHS Secretary Tom Price says it should be up to states to regulate whether immunizations are required https://t.co/soyH0YpO5E — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 16, 2017 What’s […]
March 14th, 2017
Poll: Should We Allow 24-Hour Shifts Again For Interns?
Over on Boston’s NPR site, I wrote a piece about the decision by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to allow 24 hour (or longer) work shifts again for interns. My goal in writing the piece was to relay what I experienced doing these long shifts way back when during my internship — the […]
March 5th, 2017
High-Dose Flu Vaccine, Robert De Niro Challenge, Antibiotics for Colds, and More: March Comes in Like a Lion ID Link-o-Rama
Here are a few ID/HIV items blowing around the neighborhood on this, a bitterly cold and windy first weekend of March (at least here in Boston): Compared with the standard dose vaccine, the high-dose flu vaccine reduced deaths among older adults. The benefit was seen in the 2012-13 flu season, but not 2013-14. The authors speculate that the […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
Associate Editor
NEJM Clinician
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