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HIV and ID Observations
An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
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Two New Trials of Combination Therapy for MRSA Bacteremia Answer Some Questions — and Raise Several New Ones • April 22, 2019
Every clinically active ID specialist, hospitalist, and cardiologist realizes that treatment of bacteremia due to methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) is no easy task. In fact, it’s a problem so difficult that persistent bacteremia due to MRSA deserved highlighting here as an “Unanswerable Problem in Infectious Diseases.” I wrote that over 5 years ago, and you know what? […]
2018-2019
Chief Resident Panel:
Justin Davis, MBBS
Cassandra Fritz, MD
Scott Hippe, MD
Ashley McMullen, MD
Ellen Poulose-Redger, MD
Insights on Residency Training
Notes from chief residents in family and internal medicine
Recent Posts
The Nephrology Social Media Collective • April 11, 2019 • Justin Davis, MBBS
Thinking back on it now, I can’t quite recall why I first decided to get a Twitter account. My suspicion is that I wanted to follow the amusing tweets of Jim Sterling who works in the videogame industry and whose work I closely follow. What did happen, of course, is that I eventually realised that, […]
Clinical Conversations
Audio podcasts featuring the week's news,
plus your comments and pertinent interviews
Recent Posts
Podcast 225: Managing diabetes in primary care — are there quality differences among NPs, PAs, and MDs? • November 28, 2018
Does the diabetes care afforded by NPs and PAs match that of MDs? According to a careful analysis among Veterans Affairs patients there are no clinical differences in intermediate outcomes — hemoglobin A1c, systolic pressure, or LDL cholesterol. The principal and senior authors of that analysis are our guests this time. Links: Annals of Internal Medicine study (free […]
FROM THE ARCHIVES
In Practice: Reflections from NPs and PAs
In Practice, a blog featuring the perspectives of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, was active from 2015 through 2017.
CardioExchange
Posts and discussion from NEJM Group's clinical cardiology community, active from 2009 to 2015.
Gutcheck on Gastroenterology
Gut Check on Gastroenterology, an NEJM Journal Watch blog focusing on issues in clinical gastroenterology, was active from 2008 to 2014.
The views and opinions expressed in these blogs are not necessarily those of NEJM Journal Watch or NEJM Group.
NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Infectious Diseases Articles- From the Blogs: Two New Trials of Combination Therapy for MRSA Bacteremia Answer Some Questions — and Raise Several New Ones
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- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent General Medicine Articles
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- Health Differences Between Transgender and Cisgender Adults
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- Your NEJM Group Today: Misapplied Opioid Guidelines / Ablation for Afib / Mass. & N.C. Primary Care Opportunities
- After Stroke, Patients Aren't Being Screened for Osteoporosis
- Measles Hits All-Time High Since Its Eradication in U.S.
- Longer Antibiotic Rx After Surgery Tied to Increasing Harms, Limited Benefits
- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Articles
- New Study Links Screen Time to Preschooler Behavior Problems and ADHD Symptoms
- Elevated Blood Lead Screening in Asymptomatic Young Children and Pregnant Women
- Variation in Rates of Early Sexual Initiation in Adolescent Boys
- Soft Bedding Implicated in Most Sleep-Related Infant Suffocations
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