Medscape conducted several anonymous online surveys of physicians and came up with a snapshot of the typical infectious diseases (ID)/HIV specialist. It’s pretty cool to see how those of my specialty compare to others. ·     34% of ID/HIV specialists who responded to the surveys were women. ·     58% of the ID/HIV specialists were born in the United States; an additional […]
Fungal Meningitis Linked to Epidural Steroid Shots in the News
137 cases, 12 deaths, 10 states and still counting… You don’t have to be an infectious disease expert to be aware of this very alarming outbreak. Public health personnel and infectious disease physicians have been hard at work and have narrowed the source of this multi-state infection to a likely contamination event occurring at New […]
Surgical Complications including Infection from a Patient’s Viewpoint
Recently, I read a tale in the Washington Post titled “The surgeon said he could fix the injured arm. He had an odd definition of ‘fix’” in which the author described his harrowing 8 year surgical complications odyssey to repair a left distal radial fracture and elbow dislocation acquired when he fell off a ladder […]
ICAAC San Francisco Style
Golden Gate Bridge in the Fog I just returned from a medical conference in San Francisco. It was my first time attending the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), hosted by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and showcasing the latest-breaking science from premier international researchers. Unlike the Infectious Disease Society of America […]
Not my Beloved Mangoes (Salmonellosis)
In a cruel trick nature is playing on me my beloved fruit, the mango, has become associated with a foodborne illness, salmonella. The ID nerd in me wants to exclaim “how cool?!” but my true love for mango is preventing me from appreciating the infectious disease and public health nuances of this outbreak. Not my […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- …
- 30
- Next Page »