Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases Perspective

• Our Biggest Mistakes During the COVID-19 Pandemic   Bioethicist Art Caplan shares his list of mistakes made and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 04, 2022
• Leadership Needed to Fight Superbugs and Health Inequities A bill before Congress could incentivize the development of new antimicrobials.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, April 28, 2022
• Animal Reservoirs, Immunocompromised Hosts: COVID Dangers Ahead   Stanford's Benjamin Pinsky on the potential for even more transmissible and pathogenic versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to arise.
  Medscape, April 21, 2022
• Run Into a Rabid Animal? What to Know Rabid animals are a summertime hazard. Here's how to protect yourself.
  Medscape Blogs, April 11, 2022
• Eric Topol: 'I Still Have My Guard Up'   Why we should be shifting into high gear on treatments for long COVID and a pan-beta-coronavirus vaccine.
  Medscape, April 08, 2022
• Episode 3: Antiretroviral Therapy, Maintenance, and Switching   Drs Michael Saag and Constance Benson discuss antiretroviral therapy, maintenance, and switching.
  Medscape, April 06, 2022
• Match Interviews Should Stay Virtual to Be More Equitable The medical Match has always been rigged in favor of the affluent. Online interviews helped, and we should keep them.
  Medscape Blogs, April 05, 2022
• Ivermectin and COVID: Is a Microscopic Worm the Key?   F. Perry Wilson comments on a meta-analysis of ivermectin treatment for COVID.
  Medscape, March 22, 2022
• To Prevent Future Variants, We Must Protect Those Most at Risk Protecting the immunocompromised is not only a matter of health equity, it’s critical to ending the pandemic.
  Undark, March 17, 2022
• Post–COVID-19 Headache and Migraine: What's the Connection?   Dr Deena Kuruvilla discusses the relationship between post–COVID-19 headache and migraine.
  American Headache Society and Medscape, March 11, 2022
• Why Test to Treat is Imperative Now   Epidemiologist-engineer Michael Mina thinks diagnostics belong in the hands of the people.
  Medscape, March 09, 2022
• WSPID 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from WSPID 2022
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, March 03, 2022
• ACIP 2022 Child/Teen Immunization Schedule: What's New? Dr William Basco outlines key changes in the 2022 ACIP child/adolescent immunization schedule and offers important reminders about pediatric vaccination.
  Medscape Pediatrics, February 23, 2022
• The Illustrious Patient — Diseases of Famous People The lives of prominent figures in history were shaped by various diseases.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, February 07, 2022
• Who Are the Real COVID Experts? Everyone has an opinion on the pandemic, some more valid than others, but maybe the real experts are not the people who claim to have all the answers but those willing to say "I don't know."
  theheart.org on Medscape, January 31, 2022
• COVID Is a Disaster. It Could Have Been Worse.   F. Perry Wilson muses on how the COVID pandemic might have been even worse. What if kids had been more vulnerable than adults? What if the vaccines hadn't worked?
  Medscape, January 25, 2022
• The Pandemic Isn't Over Until We Stop Isolating People for COVID   F. Perry Wilson addresses the controversial idea that the end of the pandemic is the end of isolation.
  Medscape, December 20, 2021
• How Clinical Research Can Be Used -- and Abused A clinician discovers that no good deed goes unpunished in medical research.
  Medscape Blogs, December 10, 2021
• Turning the Page: Books to Get You Prepared for a New Year These novels, histories, humorous essay collections, travelogues, and cookbooks will give you a fresh perspective to start 2022.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, December 09, 2021
• 25 Great Winter Vacations for Doctors: 2021 We've selected terrific locations where you can have fun, restore your spirits, and make the most of your winter vacation.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 24, 2021