Richard Pizzi is editor of The Hospitalist. He has been an editor at Frontline Medical Communications since 2015, and previously served as editor of MDedge publications Hospitalist News and ID Practitioner. He has also worked as an editor and in editorial management roles for HIMSS Media, MedTech Media, and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry. Follow him on Twitter @richpizzi
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Society of Hospital Medicine targets antibiotic overprescribing
The Society of Hospital Medicine is launching Fight the Resistance, a campaign against antibiotic resistance that specifically targets hospital-...
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2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine honors parasitic disease research
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