Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases Perspective

• A Quick Tour of the New Lyme Disease Guideline   Dr Paul Auwaerter highlights the major changes in this guideline, which was a collaboration of the IDSA, AAN, and ACR.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, June 14, 2021
• Tracking Down the Last Person to Get Naturally Infected With Smallpox In 1979, the WHO found itself with only one smallpox patient left in the world. And how I found him.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, June 10, 2021
• Michael Lewis on the Mirage That Is America's Public Health System   Gaps in public health preparation and priorities appeared years before SARS-CoV-2 arrived in the US. 'What happened before told you so much about what would happen during the pandemic,' Lewis says.
  Medscape, June 04, 2021
• Imagine the Worst, or We're at Our Own Peril: Osterholm   At home with politicians and news anchors, CIDRAP's Michael Osterholm shares three rules of science and the media, and explains why policy and science belong together like chocolate and peanut butter.
  Medscape, May 14, 2021
• New Pediatric Advanced Life Support Guidelines Raise Questions   Drs Robert Glatter, Peter Antevy, and Paul Pepe discuss why they disagree with the scientific interpretation behind two new recommendations for pediatric advanced life support.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, May 06, 2021
• A New Keto Diet Book's Simple Message: It's the Insulin Nutrition science is built on faulty logic, but one investigative journalist is setting the record straight.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, April 29, 2021
• How COVID-19 Affects the Brain, With a Cameo by Dr Fauci From the virtual AAN 2021 conference, Dr Andrew Wilner summarizes meeting hot topics, which this year -- not surprisingly -- centered around COVID-19.
  Medscape Neurology, April 22, 2021
• Peter Hotez Talks Russia, Lady Gaga, and the Antiscience Movement   Peter Hotez regularly counters antiscience rhetoric. He tells Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese how the movement cost lives in COVID-19, and that as clinicians, speaking up for science is ‘our lane.’
  Medscape, April 21, 2021
• Frieden on CDC Fumbles, Blood Clots, and Fixing Our COVID Approach   In a conversation with Eric Topol, former CDC director Tom Frieden discusses the agency's response to COVID-19, how the world got lucky in some ways, and his effort to improve global health.
  Medscape, April 15, 2021
• A Commission Should Probe Our Lame Response to the COVID Crisis   Professor Art Caplan calls for the creation of a national COVID-19 commission.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 14, 2021
• The Diagnosis We're All Missing, and Why That Must Change It's not just a disease of Latin America; there are an estimated 300,000 cases of Chagas disease in the United States. Are you prepared to make the diagnosis?
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, April 14, 2021
• What Ebola Has Taught Us About Managing COVID   Drs Robert Glatter, Craig Spencer, and Syra Madad discuss lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic that the US should have learned from the Ebola crisis.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, April 08, 2021
• Roberto Burioni on Conquering COVID and Charming the Skeptics   Virologist-author Roberto Burioni talks about the relevance of variants, why vaccines are our ticket out of this nightmare, and how best to deal with science and vaccine skeptics.
  Medscape, April 02, 2021
• Lawsuit: Doctor's Doubts Lead to Missed Diagnosis A mysterious illness continues to plague a patient. Could the physician have done anything to reach an earlier diagnosis?
  Cooperative of American Physicians, April 01, 2021
• Sjögren Syndrome-associated ILD Treated With Immunosuppression The case of a 39-year-old woman with Sjögren syndrome and clinically relevant pulmonary involvement.
  HSS Grand Rounds Complex Cases, March 30, 2021
• COVID Writing Goes Viral: How Writing Became a Lifeline   This is a special episode of the 'Medicine and the Machine' podcast, to celebrate Bellevue Literary Review's 20th anniversary -- with Dr Eric Topol, Dr Abraham Verghese, and Dr Danielle Ofri.
  Medscape, March 26, 2021
• Climate Change: Dermatologists Address Impact on Health 'Climate change is not a far-off threat but an urgent health issue,' Dr Misha Rosenbach, from Penn Medicine, wrote in an editorial with coauthor Mary Sun, a med student at Mount Sinai in New York.
  Medscape Medical News, March 19, 2021
• It's Okay to Overreact: Devi Sridhar Shares COVID's Humbling Lesson   Global health expert Devi Sridhar discusses with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese how the countries that took the threat seriously from the get-go have fared better in loss of life and economic recovery.
  Medscape, March 18, 2021
• A Man With Fever, Fatigue, and a Trip to Nigeria A 36-year-old man returns from a trip to Nigeria with fever, fatigue, and muscle aches. Blood cultures drawn at urgent care and a rapid diagnostic test for malaria are negative. What's your diagnosis?
  CDC Expert Commentary, March 04, 2021
• What the NBA's Collaboration With Yale Reveals About COVID   The NBA was looking for help with COVID-19 surveillance. They found it in Nathan Grubaugh's team at Yale. Grubaugh talks with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese about that collaboration and more.
  Medscape, February 23, 2021