Next up: Dr Lauren Saint from UNC discusses a case of joint swelling in knee, finger, toe. Skin lesions and painful eye with blurry vision and increased eye pressure and uveitis leading to loss of vision in eye. US travel only. Transports live pigs as truck driver.
If you're thinking of Tim Cook's legacy, this piece from last September: How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs. www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/h...
Headline:”The Trump administration begins accepting requests for refunds of $166 billion in tariffs.”
Just send all 278 million adults $600 each
Waldorf and Statler enjoying the “trial run to non-inferiority” session at ESCMID Global 2026, remembering the times of superiority.
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Really appreciate your posts. Thank you!
Bummer it’s not available open access at the journal
Late-breaking #Lancet SCOUT RCT results at #ESCMIDGlobal2026:
💊 Day 7 clinical resolution
• Nitrofurantoin: 74%
• Pivmecillinam: 70%
• Fosfomycin (2 doses): 67%
• Fosfomycin (single dose): 59%
🔑 single-dose fosfomycin underperforms vs standard short-course regimens
Here’s a thread on the talk I gave at #ESCMIDGlobal 2026:
“Toilets: Flushing and Spread of Pathogens” — nicknamed “You can’t outrun the plume.” Using published studies, I covered the key components shown below. There’s a surprising amount of data, but still a lack of high-quality intervention trials
In #ESCMIDGlobal2026 session Surgical Site Infection in Solid Organ Transplant session, Nicolas Mueller presented his teams @jamanetworkopen.com cohort study. SSIs were independently associated with graft loss and/or death (hazard ratio [HR], 3.24; P < .01)
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Dr Kurt Hanevik starts his overview of year in public health with a Lancet report on global burden of disease. Communicable diseases dominate in early years with other causes such as cancer more important in older people.
#ESCMIDGlobal2026
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💊 Antibiotic overuse costly (€2.7B EU)
💶 Stewardship = low cost, high return
💉 High-dose flu: modest benefit
🦟 Wolbachia → promising dengue control
Bottom line: Progress is real—but unequal, fragile, and system-driven
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Take-home points from “Year in Public Health” #ESCMIDGlobal2026
💉 Vaccines expanding → cancer, AMR, off-target effects
🌍 Shift to NCDs—but inequities widening
📊 Lifecourse: infections early, NCDs later
📉 Communicable diseases ↓—progress fragile
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Dr. David Fisman kicks it off with “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
Best: development in new tools in genomics and vaccinology. Worst: global disruption of public health infrastructure.
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My first #ESCMIDGlobal2026 session on Monday is Interconnected microbiomes and resistomes across One Health. The first speaker is Amy Mathers with Hospital microbiomes as hotspots for emerging resistance: surveillance-to-intervention
NIH grantmaking plummeting under Trump
How many people will die from diseases that would otherwise have been preventable
Washington Post article on STEM cuts at federal agencies. NSF tops it at -42%!
“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.”
OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.)
NSF at -42%!
i'm not sure how to live in a country in which the murder of eight children doesn't ... stop everything
New study from Denmark shows that Tylenol is not linked to autism www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social
Good graphic explaining the issue with "multi-year funding" of NIH grants. Most other departments obligate funds at time of award, so this hasn't been an issue for them.
Yall my heart can’t handle this
This session is not in @jamanetworkopen.com lane, but that’s a great idea for other sessions!
Among 359 outbreak-linked Shiga toxin–producing #Ecoli (#STEC) infections beginning in daycare centers in Calgary, only 7% of infected children developed HUS. Early, coordinated care with daily lab monitoring identified all future HUS cases.
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High-concentration chlorhexidine in isopropyl alcohol reduced catheter-related infection rates more than povidone-iodine or aqueous formulations, with alcoholic PVI and aqueous agents reserved for CHG or alcohol intolerance.
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Cluster RCT: A discharge-focused prospective audit and feedback intervention did not reduce overall antibiotic use at hospital discharge but improved optimal discharge prescribing for common infections; broader approaches are needed.
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Among adults with outpatient community-acquired pneumonia, only 5% underwent diagnostic testing for #Blastomycosis, #Coccidioidomycosis, or #Histoplasmosis, underscoring potential for missed fungal diagnoses.
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RCT: In rural persons with chronic HCV and a history of drug injection, mobile telemedicine-based HCV treatment was associated with greater initiation of HCV treatment and viral clearance, compared with enhanced usual care.
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📢 Calling all #ESCMIDGlobal2026 attendees!
Check out this collection of articles curated by JAMA Network Open’s editors to supplement your conference experience 👇
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Vintage tile floor with patterned center & border in salmon, black and white.
Auditorium Building, 1889.
Indeed. Was typing quickly during the session
