An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
September 30th, 2009
The Battle for Colonic Microflora
My two favorite newspapers (New York Times and Wall Street Journal — sorry, hometown paper) have just covered opposite ends of a topic on the edges of ID practice — namely, colonic micro-organisms. Too few? Too many? Wrong type? In the Times, a review of the probiotic debate: Probiotics are live micro-organisms that work by restoring the balance of intestinal […]
August 14th, 2009
Who Gets Toxoplasmosis in the United States?
This might seem bizarre, but one of the reasons I chose to go into Infectious Diseases as a field was the names of the diseases (and often the micro-organisms that caused them) sounded so darn cool. For example, if you were a science fiction writer you could hardly come up with a better-sounding name for a […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
Contributing Editor
NEJM Journal Watch
Infectious Diseases
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