All posts in category Infections

South Beach Clinical Dermatology Symposium Pediatric Tips

Tips for Tots Dr. Fred Ghali Dr. Ghali’s lecture focused on having a kid-friendly office, how to meet and greet a pediatric patient, diagnostic tricks, molluscum and warts and minor surgeries. To have a kid-friendly waiting room, have appropriate books and magazines for children. Also, video games or other hand-held games help occupy children while [...]

New map pinpoints areas of highest human risk for lyme disease in eastern United States

Read the Author Interview here:  Maria Ana Diuk-Wasser PhD Band of tick hunters gathered evidence for most extensive field study ever conducted. Given frequent over- and under-diagnosis of Lyme disease, map offers officials new tool for assessing risk and tracking disease spread Deerfield, Ill. — A new map pinpoints well-defined areas of the Eastern United States where [...]

Human Risk of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Agent, in Eastern US – Author Interview

Human Risk of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Agent, in Eastern United States Author Interview:  Maria Ana Diuk-Wasser PhD Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) at the Yale School of Medicine. Read the Press Release and View Map of Lyme Disease Risk What are the main findings of the study? This study identifies area of high [...]

Efficacious Treatment of Non-Dermatophyte Mould Onychomycosis with Topical Amphotericin B: Authors’ Interview

Efficacious Treatment of Non-Dermatophyte Mould Onychomycosis with Topical Amphotericin B Authors’ Interview: Massimo C. R. Lurati MD Florence Baudraz-Rosselet MD Prof. Michel Monod PhD Private practice and Department of Dermatology Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland What are the main findings of the study? Dermatophytes are the main cause of onychomycosis, but a significant percentage of [...]

Description of a Cold Sore Susceptibility Gene: Dr. Kriesel

Author Interview: John D. Kriesel, M.D. Associate Professor Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine University of Utah School of Medicine 30 North 1900 East, Room 4B-322 Salt Lake City, UT 84132 What are the main findings of the study? We found that the previously obscure gene candidate (open reading frame) C21orf91 is linked to frequent cold sores [...]

Cancers That U.S. Physicians Believe the HPV Vaccine Prevents: Author Interview Dr. Saraiya

  Cancers That U.S. Physicians Believe the HPV Vaccine Prevents: Findings from a Physician Survey, 2009 Author Interview:  Mona Saraiya, MD MPH Medical Epidemiologist and International Activities Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Cancer Prevention and Control 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341 What are the main findings of the study? The main [...]