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December 10th, 2017
Injection Drug Use-Related HIV Cases Increase in Massachusetts — Is This the Start of a Trend?
Recently the Massachusetts Department of Public Health sent out this concerning notice: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) has noted an increase in newly diagnosed and acute HIV infections among persons who inject drugs (PWID). To date in calendar year 2017 (through November 21), there have been 64 HIV infections reported among individuals who inject […]
March 25th, 2017
HIV and Hepatitis C Are No Longer the Most Serious Infectious Threats to People Who Inject Drugs
I had dinner with my daughter Mimi the other evening, and was ruminating about how things have changed since I started work as an Infectious Diseases doctor around 25 years ago. Here’s an excerpt of our chat: Me: There are way more cases of endocarditis in young people than there used to be, a complication of injecting drugs. People in their 20s and […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
Contributing Editor
NEJM Journal Watch
Infectious Diseases
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