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Long-Acting Cabotegravir-Rilpivirine for People Not Taking Oral Therapy — Time to Modify Treatment Guidelines? • September 22, 2023
HIV treatment guidelines are understandably reluctant to endorse practices that have limited data. Having served on two such panels (previously, DHHS and currently, the IAS-USA guidelines), I totally get this — you don’t want to put a stamp of approval on strategies that may ultimately do more harm than good. With the caveat that I cannot […]
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Mikita Arora, MD
Madiha Khan, DO
Mikita Arora, MD
Khalid A. Shalaby, MBBCh
Brandon Temte, DO
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Developing Resident Educators • August 19, 2022 • Brandon Temte, DO
We currently find ourselves at the start of another academic year. By this time in August, many medical trainees are settling into new roles. Recently graduated medical students are getting used to hearing Dr. before their name. New senior residents who were interns a short time ago now find themselves leaders of their own teams. […]
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Podcast 298: COPD exacerbations — 7 days of antibiotics versus 2 • September 2, 2022
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE AT THIS LINK. In treating most exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) the usual regimen consists of prednisone plus 5- to 7-days of antibiotics. But what if a shorter course of antibiotic therapy would do? That would be both convenient for patients and less likely to promote […]
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NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Infectious Diseases Articles- Missed Chances for Screening in Persons Newly Diagnosed with HIV: New York City, 2018–2022
- Arboviral Disease Surveillance in the U.S.
- Observations from ID and Beyond: Long-Acting Cabotegravir-Rilpivirine for People Not Taking Oral Therapy — Time to Change Treatment Guidelines?
- Risk for C. difficile Infection Varies Widely with Choice of Antibiotic
- Mpox in Persons with Previous Infection or Vaccination
- NEJM Journal Watch — Recent General Medicine Articles
- Interstitial Lung Abnormalities as Incidental Findings on Lung CT
- GLP-1 Agonists and Retained Gastric Contents at Endoscopy
- Night Owls or Early Birds: Who Gets Diabetes?
- Prognostic Value of Fractional Flow Reserve Derived from CT Angiography
- Tight Glucose Control Didn't Affect Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay or Lower Mortality