An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
June 18th, 2017
On Father’s Day, A Rumination on Families with Lots of Doctors
My father is a doctor. So was my father’s father. And my father’s uncle. And my father’s cousin. But that’s not all. My father’s brother was also a doctor — he loved being a doctor more than anyone on the planet, and attended neurology meetings long after he retired, right up until the time he […]
June 10th, 2017
What’s Your Favorite Antibiotic? A Fantasy Draft
Over on the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases (that’s “O-F-I-D”, not “Oh-FID”), the generous people from IDSA and Oxford University Press have allowed me to record a series of podcasts, interviewing various interesting people in the ID field. This time, however, I strayed from the usual format and asked my colleague Rebeca Plank to join me in […]
June 4th, 2017
Can’t HIV Serodiscordant Couples Now Just Have Children the Regular Way?
MMWR just published a paper entitled, Strategies for Preventing HIV Infection Among HIV-Uninfected Women Attempting Conception with HIV-Infected Men — United States, and it’s both a welcome and a very strange document indeed. It’s welcome because it acknowledges that serodiscordant couples may wish to have children without the use of an HIV-negative sperm donor. Advances in HIV […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
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NEJM Clinician
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