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Paul Sax, MD
HIV and ID Observations
An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
all matters medical, and some not so medical
Recent Posts
Just 1 Month of TB Preventive Therapy Works for People with HIV in TB-Endemic Regions — How About Other People in Other Places? • March 18, 2019
There’s a look our patients frequently give us when we tell them that preventive therapy for tuberculosis involves 9 months of treatment. If I were to put that look into words, they would be: Yikes, Doc, 9 months is waaay too long — you must be out of your mind. It’s the “9 months?!?!” face. We’ve […]
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
Musings on Match Day, the Conception Day of our Residencies • March 14, 2019 • Ellen Poulose-Redger, MD
Match Day. The one day that medical students across the United States all simultaneously look forward to and also fear. It’s really a whole week of roller-coaster emotions: on Monday we find out if we matched somewhere, and on Friday we find out where. (And, in between, if we unfortunately didn’t match, we scramble to find a position that is […]
Clinical Conversations
Audio podcasts featuring the week's news,
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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: Just 1 Month of TB Preventive Therapy Works for People with HIV in TB-Endemic Regions — How About Other People in Other Places?
- Tetanus in an Unvaccinated Child
- Preventing Cardiac Device Infections with a Minocycline/Rifampin Envelope
- Early Switch to Oral Treatment of Endocarditis: No Delayed Treatment Failure
- MMR Vaccination and Autism in Danish Children
- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent General Medicine Articles
- Meta-Analysis of Fecal Immunochemical Tests for Detecting Colorectal Cancer
- Preventing Hospital Readmissions Among Medicaid Patients
- Antihypertensive Drug Combos for Black African Patients: A Randomized Trial
- Long-Term Outcomes of Carotid Endarterectomy and Stenting
- Does a Restrictive Blood Transfusion Strategy Improve Outcomes in Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding?
- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Physician’s First Watch Articles
- From the Blogs: 1 Month of TB Preventive Therapy for People with HIV
- Daily Cannabis Use Tied to Increased Psychosis Risk
- Your NEJM Group Today: Birding & Burnout / Basal Cell Carcinoma in Cancer Survivors / Hospitalist & Endocrinology Opportunities
- Even a Little Bit of Exercise Could Help
- Breast Screening: Adding Ultrasonography Doesn't Seem Worth Associated Harms
- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Articles
- Risk for Basal Cell Carcinoma Is Greatly Increased in Childhood Cancer Survivors
- Tetanus in an Unvaccinated Child
- Timing and Intensity of Maternal Smoking and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
- Eating Breakfast in the Classroom Increased Obesity in Schoolchildren
- MMR Vaccination and Autism in Danish Children