An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
October 29th, 2010
With HIV Medication Adherence, It’s Not a Competition
There has been an irresistable urge for people — doctors, public health officers, politicians, journalists, the usual pundits — to compare adherence to HIV treatment in resource-rich vs. resource-limited setting. I suspect this is because the whole issue got off to a famously bad start in 2001, when then-head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Andrew Natsios […]
October 22nd, 2010
How to Figure Out the Length of Antibiotic Therapy
One thing we ID doctors know — that other clinicians simply don’t — is how long to treat a patient with antibiotics. I was reminded of this special power by these recent events: An excellent fellow from the hospital’s Critical Care program rotated through our division recently. When asked about what she wanted learn from the elective, the […]
October 12th, 2010
Worlds Collide: Roberto Alomar and HIV
Now that a second woman has accused Roberto Alomar of having HIV, it’s probably time to give this sad story a look-over. After all, how often do these two worlds of mine — HIV/ID (work) and baseball (lifetime hobby — my wife would say that’s a collosal understatement) actually meet? For those unfamiliar with the basics: Alomar was […]
October 7th, 2010
Post-Halladay Video Treat: Prospects for HIV Cure
For a little entertainment between playoff games — but how could anyone beat the guy in the picture? — you might want to check out this interview I did with Dan Kuritzkes about the prospects for an HIV cure. So which do you think we’ll see first — an HIV cure or a vaccine? And I don’t mean an […]
October 1st, 2010
Five Friday Fasciolas
As we await either the start of the baseball playoffs (or Spring Training), here is some ID/HIV content to consider, in no particular order: Could adenovirus infection be the cause of obesity? That would be the media take, especially from this highly-esteemed research journal, The New York Daily News. (Warning: kind of ugly photo in link.) […]