Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases News

Antibiotics, Antidepressants Dominate New FDA Watch List Presence on list does not mean a drug has been linked to a risk, only that new safety information is available or potential risk has been identified and further review will be or has been completed.
Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2018

Doctors Underdiagnosing Flu Among Older Patients Patients over age 65 who are hospitalized for influenza-like illness were less likely to receive diagnostic tests from providers than were younger patients, a new study showed.
Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2018
Urinalysis Accurately Pinpoints UTI in Febrile Infants Urinalysis is highly sensitive and specific in diagnosing urinary-tract infection (UTI) in febrile infants, according to findings from a large study.
Reuters Health Information, January 18, 2018

Alert New HHS Division to Protect Clinicians With Religious Objections The Trump administration opens the new unit within HHS to focus on claims of coercion on medical staff to perform abortions and other procedures over religious objections.
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2018
Flu Intensity, IV Bag Shortage Have Hospitals Scrambling
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2018
Health Programs Threatened by Possible Government Shutdown
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2018
A Nudge May Be Enough to Change Healthcare Behavior
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2018

Government Ban on Seven Words Creates Anger Among Physicians Last year, the Washington Post reported that the CDC was banned from using seven scientific words. What do physicians think of the ban?
Medscape Business of Medicine, January 19, 2018
Burnout Might Really Be Depression; How Do Doctors Cope? Medscape asked physicians whether they experienced burnout, depression, or both. Some experts say that burnout is really a form of depression. Would that change the recommended treatment?
Medscape Business of Medicine, January 17, 2018

A New Way ID Care Is Valued Dr Paul Auwaerter urges infectious diseases clinicians to review and incorporate into their practice two new CPT codes for prolonged services without direct face-to-face patient contact.
Medscape Infectious Diseases, January 2, 2018
Stories of Science Gone Wrong: Paul Offit on His New Book Looking back at history, how many scientific inventions end up doing more harm than good? In a new book, Paul Offit, MD, tells readers seven stories about when scientists got things very wrong.
Medscape Infectious Diseases, June 12, 2017
Should a Terminal Patient Receive Cataract Surgery? Should a terminally ill cancer patient who asks for cataract surgery to improve his quality of life be granted his wish?
Medscape Business of Medicine, January 18, 2018
Eric Topol's Top 10 Tech Advances Shaping Medicine Dr Eric Topol identifies the latest tech advances in medicine that set the stage for the coming year.
Medscape, January 11, 2018
Protect Patients From a Surge in STDs The latest surveillance report reveals that sexually transmitted infections are again on the rise.
CDC Expert Commentary, January 16, 2018
For Every Infection, a Season? Are there seasonal patterns to surgical site infections? This perspective from SHEA on a recent study offers some insight.
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), July 7, 2017

Eric J. Topol, MD Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Executive Vice President and Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute; Senior Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape