Search results for "Infectious Diseases"
Following up on breast density
Another story reports on a briefing from the Infectious Diseases Society of America regarding the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine. ... In a Q&A, we talk to infectious diseases subspecialist Elisa I.
June 2020
Infectious disease doctors tackle bad bugs with fewer drugs
SAN DIEGO—Much of the conversation at the Infectious Diseases Society of America annual conference in October dealt with a grim reality: the rise of drug-resistant infections and the dearth ... Happily, the IDSA has proposed three trials to the
January 2008
Treating skin ulcers in the office
MacKinney noted. In a systematic review and meta-analysis published in 2016 by Clinical Infectious Diseases, the test had a sensitivity of 0.87 and a specificity of 0.83.
June 2020
HIV comes of age as disease of mid-to-late life
Kilby, who directs the division of infectious diseases there. Some of the patients have been diagnosed in midlife or beyond. ... As she describes it, HIV is one of a number of chronic diseases she monitors in patients, more often than not through regular
November 2011
Obituaries
After training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center and serving in the military, he joined the faculty of University of Virginia. ... He served as president of the Infectious Diseases Society of
January 2008
Antimicrobial stewardship in the clinic
While the standard does not require a multidisciplinary team, one way ambulatory practices can get the data they need is through building partnerships, said infectious diseases physician Susan C. ... In addition, new tools, such as infectious diseases
January 2020
Outcome bias
Daniel J. Diekema, MD, FACP, practices infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, and hospital epidemiology in Iowa City, Iowa, splitting time between seeing patients with infectious diseases, diagnosing infections in the microbiology laboratory,
October 2020
COVID-19 and primary care
In January, ACP released its New Vision for the U.S. Health Care System, advocating for better coverage and other reforms that could help combat diseases like this one. ... Also in this issue, a feature details why some infectious diseases subspecialists
July 2020
Better treatment, low awareness for hepatitis C
Bartlett, MD, MACP, a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. ... Ann Intern Med. 2012;156:317-318. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sexually transmitted diseases treatment
July 2012
Is it time to forgo the handshake?
some experts studying ways to curtail infectious diseases.
March 2015