By Theresa Sumberac, MD
Peer Reviewed
Antibiotic associated diarrhea is a common complication of antibiotic therapy, occurring in 5% to 39% of all patients receiving treatment. Nearly one third of these cases are attributed to …
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Clinical Correlations
Gay Men, Barebacking and the New Little Blue Pill: The awkward interface of medicine and gay sex.
May 23, 2014
By Richard E. Greene, MD
Peer Reviewed
In July of 2012, the FDA approved the use of Tenofovir-Emtricitabine (Truvada, a single blue pill) daily as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in …
Infection Transmission During Air Travel
May 7, 2014
By Aaron Smith, MD
Peer Reviewed
It’s become a familiar site to travelers: airline passengers wearing respiratory masks to filter pathogens from the cabin air. To those not wearing masks, the fashion trend …
Proton Pump Inhibitors and Clostridium Difficile Infection
March 20, 2014
By Aaron Smith, MD
Peer Reviewed
First introduced in the late 1980s, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have revolutionized the treatment of gastric acid-related disorders and have been described as a miracle drug by patients …
West Nile Virus: Just How Bad Is It?
March 5, 2014
By Julian Horwitz
Peer Reviewed
As of mid-August 2012, the CDC had reported 1118 cases of West Nile virus (WNV) infections and 41 related deaths, which, pro rata, made 2012 the most prolific year …
Can Young Patients Get Diverticular Disease?
January 23, 2014
By Aaron Smith, MD
Peer Reviewed
Case: A 35 year-old, overweight female presents to the emergency room with five days of left lower quadrant abdominal pain. The pain is 10/10 in severity and …
Who Should We Screen for Hepatitis C: By Risk Or Birth Cohort?
January 8, 2014
By Jung-Eun Ha
Peer Reviewed
Over the last few years major changes have occurred in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C. In 2011 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a …
Barriers to Translating Evidence into Clinical Care: the Zoster Vaccine
December 13, 2013
Zachary Elkin
Faculty Peer Reviewed
There are more than a million cases of herpes zoster (HZ) in the US annually [1-3]. The incidence of HZ, or shingles, has been rising in the US since …