Paul E. Sax, MD is the Editor-in-Chief, Journal Watch HIV/AIDS Clinical Care, Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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(No Ratings Yet)In Jerry Groopman’s recent New Yorker piece on antibiotic-resistant bacteria, he quotes Dr. Louis Rice from the Cleveland VA, who uses the term “ESKAPE” bacteria: an acronym for Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumanni, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter. Nothing against the mostly gram-negative nasties in this list (and the focus of the New Yorker [...]
(No Ratings Yet)A bit more travelogue from the XVII International AIDS Conference: It’s impossible to see everything you want at such a large, sprawling conference, sometimes because of conflicting meetings, sometimes because the room is full, sometimes because of a feeling analagous to being in a giant museum for too many hours — fatigue just takes over. But [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Some early and completely non-scientific observations from the XVII AIDS Conference, taking place now in Mexico City: Everyone said getting to and from the Banamex Convention Center would be difficult, and of course they were right. Mexico City is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere, has a road/traffic system that makes driving in Boston seem [...]
