Search results for "Infectious Disease"
Measles makes a comeback
Measles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
May 2022
Why can't we easily clean our stethoscopes?
Eli N. Perencevich, MD, ACP Member, is an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist in Iowa City, Iowa, who studies methods to halt the spread of resistant bacteria in our hospitals (including
May 2022
Stewardship, stewardship, stewardship
2) “Clinical algorithms aimed at improving antimicrobial stewardship from an infectious disease standpoint must also integrate treatment preferences when applied to patients near the end of life.”. ... Eli N. Perencevich, MD, ACP Member, is an
May 2022
Doctor, who's your boss?
He has published numerous articles in clinical medicine, covering a wide range of specialty areas including; pulmonology, cardiology, endocrinology, hematology, and infectious disease.
May 2022
The hero case managers
He has published numerous articles in clinical medicine, covering a wide range of specialty areas including; pulmonology, cardiology, endocrinology, hematology, and infectious disease.
May 2022
Ebola outbreak holds lessons for world health community
Photo by Milagro Gessler, RN. Sugat K. Patel, MD, FACP, an infectious disease physician with Samaritan Health Services in Corvallis, Ore., and Eileen D. ... I have been in practice in infectious disease for more than 10 years and yet when I participated
June 2015
Update for Lyme disease
It’s a regional disease, very common in some areas, vanishingly rare in others for reasons that aren’t yet clear. ... There is a great deal of controversy surrounding this “post-treatment” or “chronic” Lyme disease.
May 2022
Dialing it up to 11
1 of only 4 such facilities in the United States, according to Ribner—to treat such a contagious disease … The isolation unit was created 12 years ago in conjunction with experts ... Daniel J. Diekema, MD, FACP, practices infectious diseases,
May 2022
Move over London, here comes Flint
Apparently, there was not another case-control study used in infectious disease epidemiology until 1940. ... Eli N. Perencevich, MD, ACP Member, is an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist in Iowa City, Iowa, who studies methods to halt the
May 2022
For every rule, an exception
in seminal fluid for up to 101 days, and infectious virus up to 82 days, and in 1968 the sexual transmission of Marburg virus was reported 13 weeks into convalescence). ... Scientists detected the genetic material of Ebola from a semen sample the
May 2022