IDWeek

Listen to our latest podcast episode with Heather Yun, MD, for details on emerging pathogens, the role of primary care clinicians in the effort to rein in antimicrobial resistance, and more.

IDWeek 2023: Infectious disease specialist, Gopi Patel, MD, discusses universal masking in health care settings.

Clinicians must remember the point of vaccines was not to prevent infection, but to decrease severity of illness, says infectious disease specialist Gopi Patel, MD.

Gopi Patel, MD, emphasizes the importance of promoting vaccination and infection prevention measures among fellow clinicians, as well as patients, this season.

IDWeek chair Heather Yun, MD, observed that "primary care clinicians are out in front of all things," and that job is big and it's hard.

IDWeek 2023 chair Yun points to climate change and other human-driven devastation of the biosphere as the global threats that will cause disease at local levels.

IDWeek 2023. Nirsevimab efficacy was significant across infant subgroups in preventing hospitalization for RSV-LRTI during a first RSV season.

IDWeek 2023. New study found just slightly more than half of prescriptions for cabotegravir for HIV PrEP resulted in at least 1 injection, suggesting limitations in use and access to the injectable HIV integrase inhibitor.

IDWeek 2023: In a large cohort of people living with HIV, those switching from oral ART to long acting CAB+RPV were more than 4x as likely to adhere to the regimen.

IDWeek 2023: Adolescents expressed a preference for a combination vaccine covering serogroups A, B, C, W, Y of invasive meningococcal disease, reported researchers.