Latest News
Latest News
Primary care clinicians should spearhead HIV prevention
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines call for clinicians to prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs to adolescents and adults who do...
Feature
Do doctors have a legal right to work from home because of health issues or disability?
“There is now a precedent and examples all over that working from home for some is a viable alternative to working in the hospital or a clinic.”...
Latest News
Paxlovid and Lagevrio benefit COVID outpatients in Omicron era
In a update of the rapid practice point guideline for outpatient treatment of COVID-19, the American College of Physicians found that nirmatrelvir...
From the Journals
New antibiotic could combat multidrug-resistant superbugs
"Since clovibactin was isolated from bacteria that could not be grown before, pathogenic bacteria have not seen such an antibiotic before and had...
Feature
Antigen tests: After pandemic success, time for bigger role?
“People used to the COVID self-tests are asking: “Where is my strep test? Where is my sexual health test?”
From the Journals
COVID booster may transiently raise glucose levels in T1D
“Clinicians, pharmacists, and other health care providers may need to counsel people with T1D to be more vigilant with glucose testing and insulin...
Conference Coverage
SGLT2 inhibitors: No benefit or harm in hospitalized COVID-19
“I think the most important take-home message here is that the use of these medications appears to be safe even in really acutely ill hospitalized...
Feature
Your workplace is toxic: Can you make it better?
The two things that tend to plague medical practices most: A culture of fear and someone who is letting ego run the day-to-day.
Latest News
New COVID vaccines force bivalents out
The updated mRNA vaccines for 2023-2024 are being revised to include a single component that corresponds to the Omicron variant XBB.1.5.
Latest News
RSV season has started, and this year could be different
Typically, the CDC considers the start of RSV season to occur when the rate of positive tests for the virus goes above 3% for 2 consecutive weeks...
Latest News
New Moderna vaccine to work against recent COVID variant
The FDA is expected to approve the new Moderna shot by early October.