Quantifying and Financing the Non-billable Workload of Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) - a Model for Assessing and Supporting Staffing Needs for OPAT Programs ✅ Just Accepted #IDSky

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Tracking the consequences of the PEPFAR break, in real time.

Time for everyone to re-learn clinical manifestations of diphtheria, polio, and measles… #meded #IDsky

Before reading this excellent perspective, I had no idea that the data supporting the use of antibiotic prophylaxis for SBP were so weak. Really time to re-think this "standard-of-care" practice! Highly recommended. #IDSky doi.org/10.1093/cid/...

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇 web.archive.org/web/20250131...

Thanksgiving already! Time for an annual round-up of some ID things to be grateful for. (Plus a bonus few non-ID items.) Enjoy! #IDSky

Individuals With HIV And HCV Coinfection May Be At Risk For Hepatic Steatosis Progression Regardless Of Curative Treatment With DAAs #IDSky #GISky #HIV #HCV academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

NIH World AIDS Day 2024: Progress, Innovation, and Impact in HIV Research. Zoom webinar 11 a.m. EST on December 4, 2024, for a live virtual event commemorating the 36th World AIDS Day. Registration: oar.nih.gov/news-and-eve...

How we can #UniteToReachAll - advocate for key communities, challenge stigma, demand policy change, participate in #WorldAIDSDay events, amplify your voice on social media. #IDSky

#RawMilk is trending again so... A 🧵 on Milk Hygiene and Infant Mortality seems necessary. Pasteurization made milk consumption safer and reduced infant mortality in the early 20th century by nearly 50%. #MedSky #IDSky 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Economist article is behind a paywall but really interesting thread to read in this post

We are having RSV-giving in my house this year and staying home to protect immunocompromised family members.

Loving my new sweatshirt gifted by a friend

Taking a page from @joshhillmd.bsky.social's book, only with an HIV focus, I am wondering -- your vote for top HIV published papers or presented studies in the past 12 months? (PURPOSE trials/lenacapavir for PrEP not allowed ... too easy!) Thank you! media.giphy.com/media/jLaez6...

One of the more vexing problems I run into in practice is older women treated repeatedly for "UTI" with eventual development of AMR.

Check out regional & national AETC and PTC programs which provide training, free continuing education credits, and technical assistance to strengthen the HIV and STI workforce, for all types of medical workers. #IDSky www.seaetc.com www.southeastptc.org www.nnptc.org aidsetc.org

1st travel related case of clade 1b mpox detected in Canada. (Note the large global outbreak in 2022 was clade 2 mpox). Link: tinyurl.com/jcyff8eh #IDSky #MedSky

Interesting. ASI was strongly associated with HA-CDI w restrospective (episodes=35457) 1/2018-3/2020, multivariable Poisson reg model (w GEE) to eval ASI/day and risk of CDI. With aRR of ASI per antibiotic day 1.09 (95% CI 1.06–1.13). ABI table can be found here tinyurl.com/2s4dksxt #idsky

Alabama earns an F in maternal & infant outcomes based on this report by the March of Dimes. We should all agree that a state is only as healthy as its mothers and infants. There is much work to do to care for those too young and too sick to speak for themselves

Thrilled to share my first JAMA paper, coauthored my by brilliant colleagues Drs. Mary Hawk and Raagini Jawa: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Register for WHO's book launch of 'Health inequality monitoring: harnessing data to advance health equity' www.who.int/news-room/ev...

yes, make america NORMAL. do not trim grey flannel BUSINESS suits with yellow PIPING because that's historically a SPORTING DETAIL

Tobevibart (VIR-3434; mAb inhibition of viral entry ) and elebsiran (VIR-2218; siRNA HBV mRNAs) +/- pegIFNa-2a for the treatment of chronic HBV infection: End of treatment results after 48 weeks of therapy (MARCH study) #TLM24 (1/2)

RFK Jr is an extraordinarily dangerous man, with a body count in Samoa, and any reporter who just calls him “a vaccine skeptic” is doing the world a profound disservice.

NIH BioArt Source, a free science and biomedical art resource library created by professional medical illustrators for researchers, students, and other science communicators, is now available from NIAID. #IDSky go.nih.gov/SLWQFNz

The G.E.R.M. program is a great opportunity for medical students to receive grants for mentored ID research and encourage trainee interest in our awesome field. Deadline Jan 10, 2025. www.idsociety.org/professional...

Posting this because these images are making the rounds again. Plus, someone told me it was the best thing I ever did, and I was flattered. p.s. only possible since I've been directly involved with several papers that meet these exact criteria, so mea culpa blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Great work by my UAB and Tulane colleagues on association of historical redlining with delays in HIV care: news.tulane.edu/pr/new-study...

Newly arrived, looking for my ID folks.