Infectious Diseases Perspective

• The Disturbing Sexual Trend With Real Health Consequences   Strangulation ("choking") during sex is on the rise among teens and young adults, and those being harmed are mostly women.
  Medscape Urology, July 23, 2024
• A Cash Giveaway to Improve Health   We can't just give cash to low-income folks instead of food to improve their health, can we? That's just what these researchers did.
  Medscape, July 22, 2024
• Laboratory-Developed Meat: Ethicist Says It's Worth Pursuing   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations for laboratory-developed meat.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 22, 2024
• New Mid-Year Vaccine Recommendations From ACIP Important changes to vaccination recommendations for COVID, flu, RSV, and pneumococcal disease -- and what's behind the changes -- are summarized here.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 11, 2024
• Be Alert for Conjunctivitis: New Human Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu   Clinicians should be aware of the symptoms of bird flu seen in the first few human cases.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 09, 2024
• Infographic: PAs Feel Content With Jobs Despite Challenges A Medscape survey found that physician assistants (PAs) generally expressed high satisfaction with their careers despite various challenges.
  Medscape, July 09, 2024
• 5 Things to Know When Prescribing Topical Antifungals Overuse of topical antifungals, particularly combination antifungal-steroids, can cause adverse effects and drive resistance. Here's what you need to know about judicious use of these medications.
  CDC Expert Commentary, July 02, 2024
• How Facial Temperature Reveals Age and Disease Find out why Dr F. Perry Wilson says that the medical tricorder perhaps wasn't as fanciful as it seemed when it was used by Dr Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek."
  Medscape, July 02, 2024
• Q&A: Comorbidities in Myasthenia Gravis Nicholas Silvestri, MD, reviews the main comorbidities seen in myasthenia gravis.
  Medscape Neurology, July 01, 2024
• Medscape Physician Assistant Career Satisfaction Report 2024 Despite overall career satisfaction among physician assistants, a minority express concerns about their relationship with doctors, patients, and administrators.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, June 28, 2024
• Online Diagnosis of STIs? Ethicist Says We Are Nowhere Close Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the use of websites for diagnosing sexually transmitted diseases.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 24, 2024
• ADA 2024 Diabetic Foot Infections: A Peptide's Potential Promise An antimicrobial peptide spray demonstrates promise in managing mild to moderate diabetic foot complications.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 24, 2024
• Retinitis Pigmentosa: What's New in Diagnosis and Treatment? Dr Ninel Gregori reviews current retinitis pigmentosa diagnosis and treatment guidelines.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, June 20, 2024
• We Won't Solve Long COVID Until We Decide What It Is   Is a slow recovery from COVID-19 the lingering effects of a bad infection or the start of a new syndrome?
  Medscape, June 18, 2024
• Transplant Ethics: Quality of Life & Functional Restoration   Art Caplan discusses the ethics of transplanting for quality of life, not for functional restoration.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 17, 2024
• Share Research Results With Participants, Ethicist Says   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the obligation to provide study results to research participants.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 17, 2024
• Acute Sore Throat: When to Reach for the Antibiotics Complicated or uncomplicated, low or high risk, test or no test? Here's the consensus approach to acute sore throat in adults.
  Medscape Family Medicine, June 17, 2024
• Drug Shortages Are Killing Our Patients Is there a way to mitigate the problem?
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, June 11, 2024
• First Generation to Have More Cancer Than Their Parents   But how worried should we be? Dr F Perry Wilson breaks it all down.
  Medscape, June 11, 2024
• AMA President on a System in Crisis Outgoing AMA president Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, talked recently with Medscape about the obstacles ahead for America's physicians.
  Medscape Medical News, June 10, 2024