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Little Fluffy Baby Chicks Spread Deadly Intestinal Infection by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Sorry for the headline, but that was the first thing I thought of when reading this paper just published in the New England Journal of Medicine: In ... Read on »

Generic Nevirapine Now Available — But the Big One is Next Year by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS As I’m sure you’ve heard from your patients — as I did — lamivudine (3TC) is now available generically. Now comes news of the release of several generic formulations o ... Read on »

News on HIV and HCV Testing, and in Praise of Accurate Screening Tests by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Two recent news items reminded me how lucky we are to have some very accurate screening tests for certain infectious diseases. The news: An expert FDA panel b ... Read on »

Azithromycin Linked to Cardiovascular Death — Not A Placebo After All by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS I’ve commented before about azithromycin, that remarkable antibiotic that clinicians seem to prescribe for, gosh, you-name-it. But a paper just published in the New ... Read on »

Advisory Meeting Today on Tenofovir/FTC for PrEP, and a Proposed “Niche” for... by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS From Bloomberg News: Gilead Sciences Inc.’s pill Truvada was safe and effective when used to protect uninfected people from getting HIV, U.S. regulators said in a r ... Read on »

Difficulties and Differences on C difficile by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Some things in our field — diseases, treatments, generalizations, cliches, fads — have really changed since back in the early 1990s, when I started in this business. H ... Read on »

Do We Really Need Primary Prophylaxis for OIs Anymore? by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS I’m currently on the inpatient consult service and just saw a guy who fits the typical profile of many hospitalized HIV patients in 2012: Low CD4 (in this case, 1 ... Read on »

An Answer to a Commonly Asked Question: Is Treatment 100% Effective in Preventing... by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS The excitement about “treatment as prevention”, and the results of Study 052 , have led to many patients asking the question (if not in these words, than using others wi ... Read on »

Been There, Done That by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS I’d estimate the verisimilitude of the following video at approximately 100%: (Thanks to Raphy Landovitz for the link!) Read on »

EASL Starts Tomorrow — Get Ready for the HCV Treatment Deluge by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS I can’t think of a single upcoming scientific meeting in ID that’s likely to be more “game changing” – sorry for the tired metaphor — than the 47th European Association f ... Read on »

2004 HIV Treatment Guidelines: Available Now! by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Bargain hunters will be glad to hear that over on Amazon , they can get a copy of the 2004 Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1 Infected Adults and ... Read on »

A Skeptical Look at “Test and Treat” by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Over in Journal Watch AIDS Clinical Care, Abbie Zuger has written a fascinating perspective on the recent enthusiasm for universal HIV treatment. Her take? Let’s just ... Read on »

Infectious Diseases Specialists Take the Best Medical Histories by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS In an era where control-c followed by control-v — that’s cut and paste, for those of you who don’t use keyboard shortcuts — is the prime method by which most clinicians ... Read on »

Our Obsession with Dental Antibiotic Prophylaxis and an E-mail from Mom by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS I have a regular, highly efficient email correspondence with my mother — who never really liked talking on the phone to begin with (neither do I), so email is perfect fo ... Read on »

Latest Guidelines Recommend HIV Treatment for All by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS From the key “What’s New in the Guidelines” section of today’s Department of Health and Human Services update: ART is recommended for all HIV-infected individuals. T ... Read on »

More Confusion on Anal Cancer Screening by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Screening for anal cancer in men who have sex with men (MSM) — with pap smears, high resolution anoscopy, with whatever test — is quite the quagmire. As I’ve mentioned ... Read on »

Identity Crisis by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS As some of you might have noticed, due to a web snafu here at Mass Medical Society, I was briefly a gastroenterologist earlier this week: Unfortunately, I don’t ... Read on »

CROI 2012 Really Rapid Review — with CROI 2013 Dates! by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Some highly subjective highlights — a Really Rapid Review™– from this year’s Number One Greatest Super Scientific HIV Conference, the 19th Conference on Retroviruse ... Read on »

Be Careful What You “Catch” by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS On the eve of the 19th Retroconference, or “CROI ” — and I’m headed to Seattle right this moment — two baseball players have intersected with the world of Infectious Disea ... Read on »

Post-Exposure Prophylaxis, the World’s Most Outdated HIV Guidelines, and What To Do... by Paul Sax Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Every time I cover HIV prevention in a lecture, it’s always kind of embarrassing to cite the “official” post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) guidelines, which are here (non-o ... Read on »

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