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ID Learning Unit — Antibiotics with Excellent Oral Absorption by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Guaranteed: Every day at a hospital near you, a patient is receiving antibiotic therapy for an infection, and the orders include the following: A slew of various ... Read on »

FDA: Fecal Transplants Need Investigational New Drug Application by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Gastroenterologists, ID doctors, and microbiome-obsessed humanoids everywhere were treated to this surprising news news recently — a decision by the FDA about fecal micr ... Read on »

HIV Opportunistic Infection Guidelines Updated by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Some very hard-working folks at the NIH, CDC, and IDSA have updated the Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and ... Read on »

How to Interpret Medical Breakthroughs in the Mainstream Media by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS There it is, right in your daily paper, on your tablet or computer screen, or wherever you get your news today — a headline about a great medical breakthrough everyone’s b ... Read on »

Data Safety Monitoring Board Closes HIV Vaccine Study — the End of Adenovirus as a... by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS On Friday, the NIH announced that HVTN 505 , a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine using an adenovirus vector, would be stopped based on a finding of futility by an indepen ... Read on »

In Praise of the Diversity of Being an Infectious Diseases Specialist by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS I have a friend who is a thoracic surgeon. Imagine his daily agenda: 5:00 AM: Oops, slept late. 5:30 AM: Drive to hospital; not much traffic. 6:00 AM: Round ... Read on »

Two Papers, Four Sofosbuvir Studies, and Soon the End of “Interferonologists” by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Today, as the The International Liver Congress is about to start, two papers are published in the New England Journal of Medicine on sofosbuvir, the investigational an ... Read on »

Postexposure Prophylaxis (PEP) After Blast Injuries by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS From a colleague came this query: We are being consulted by surgeons who are finding within blast victims tissues from other humans. We have been offering post-expos ... Read on »

Simeprevir and Sofosbuvir Submitted to FDA — Clock Ticking on Boceprevir, Telaprevir,... by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Two weeks, two companies, two press releases, two future HCV drugs that begin with “S”: March 28, 2013: Janssen Research & Development announced that it has sub ... Read on »

Another “Important Advance” in HIV Vaccine Research? by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS On reading this other real news about a single patient and how it may shape the future of HIV vaccine research, I decided to write the following fake news, drawing lib ... Read on »

Banner Day for ID on Physician’s First Watch, and a Big Pitch to Sign Up Now by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Every weekday morning, right around the time the rest of my family gets up, the smart people at Physician’s First Watch send me an email listing the top medical news sto ... Read on »

Poll: How Often Do You Measure CD4 Cell Counts? by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Over in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a recent study pretty much nails the fact that routine measurement of CD4 cell counts in clinically stable patients is an all but use ... Read on »

ID Doctors, Pets in the Medical History, and a Cute Puppy by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS One of the things Infectious Disease doctors get teased about by our non-ID colleagues is our inclusion of pets in medical histories. It’s part of the social history ... Read on »

Tom Seaver Has Lyme Disease, and the Baseball, ID, and Wine Trifecta by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS In my never ending quest to link up various passions in life — especially baseball and Infectious Diseases — I bring you this news story : But for Seaver, after mo ... Read on »

Really Rapid Review — CROI 2013, Atlanta by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS As noted previously by Carlos del Rio in his nice summary , the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) turned 20 this year. It also made it’s fir ... Read on »

Exploring the Media Fascination with the Baby Cured of HIV by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS As undoubtedly you’ve heard by now, there’s another person cured of HIV out there — this time, it’s a baby born to an HIV-infected mother . Here’s the story: T ... Read on »

It’s Not Safe Sex If You’ve Just Had the Smallpox Vaccine by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS One of my more memorable teachers used to love warning us about the hazards of sex. No, this wasn’t in my 8th grade health class — this was during my first year of I ... Read on »

Guest Post: CROI at 20 — A Look Back by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS The inimitable Carlos del Rio looks back at our premier scientific meeting, the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), which starts t ... Read on »

Solve This Problem Please — Microbiology Results in Electronic Medical Records by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Our hospital and affiliated practices have had electronic medical record (EMRs) of some sort for decades, so I’ve had my chance to try my hand at multiple “platforms,” b ... Read on »

An Adherence Intervention That Works — But There’s a Catch by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS In a previous post , we reviewed the various flavors of medication non-adherence, and concluded with this tantalizing line: Next up: An Adherence Intervention that ... Read on »

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