Infectious News

Ancient medicine cures all!! We're saved from MRSA! This seems very exciting! Something that kills the indestructible 'superbug' MRSA,...

Two important things will happen this April (though I concede only one of them is important outside of our household): my eldest son will...

(Image: Coursera, "Epidemics- the Dynamics of Infectious Disease") Recently I have been working on a piece for the Bangor Daily News...

...may leave you permanently disfigured, disabled, and shunned, if we're speaking about infections. In particular this is true of a...

A PIH Clinician treats an Ebola patient (photo courtesy of Partners in Health) A clinician working with Partners in Health was evacuated...

And Let's not Forget What we Just Learned Chest X ray from a tuberculosis patient (Image Lynne Sladky, Associated Press) Several weeks...

Though it has faded from the headlines to some extent, new measles cases continue to be diagnosed in the US following a large,...

Late last week the last known Ebola patient in the country of Liberia was discharged from the hospital. This represents a number of...

This week, I was astounded to read that Dr. Andrew Wakefield, he of the thoroughly debunked "vaccines cause autism" fame, had been called...

Dear Anti-Vaxxers, I have gone through many mental phases with regard to you. As a student doctor, I went through my arrogant, “how...