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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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Being of a certain age, my wife and I still subscribe to the print version of the Sunday New York Times. Since we also get the local rag, quite a bit of paper is deposited on our doorstep each week. Worth it? You bet, especially since occasionally there’s a gem in there like this week’s [...]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)All of us New England-based ID doctors (and internists and family practitioners and pediatricians and NPs/PAs in primary care) who have been in practice a while will tell you that Lyme cases have been increasing for years. And it’s not just the number of cases, it’s also where and when they are occurring. A few years [...]
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Some scattered HIV/ID issues as the days remain warm but are (sadly) growing shorter: Here’s another one of these legal cases in which a person with HIV is charged with a crime for not warning partners about being HIV positive. Interesting twists this time: it’s a woman, and it’s in Germany. This other one in [...]
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)One of the simultaneously most enjoyable and exasperating aspects of being an Infectious Disease specialist is the large volume of “curbside” consultations we get from colleagues. For example, here’s this week’s talley — and it’s only Tuesday — done from memory and without systematically keeping track of emails, pages, phone calls, etc.: Duration of antibiotics [...]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)From the office of New York Governor David Paterson: The Governor signed into law S.8227/A.11487, which will allow patients to agree to HIV testing as part of a general signed consent to medical care that remains in effect until it is revoked or expires. The bill will also, among other things: allow oral consent to [...]
