Infectious Diseases

The Mandate Debate: How Can We Increase Clinicians' Flu Vaccination Rates?

Is your patient taking infliximab or another anti–tumor necrosis factor therapy for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)? Use of these agents...

During last year’s flu season, nearly 42,000 US residents with laboratory-confirmed influenza required hospitalization, and 2,125 died. Can...

Few human diseases instill greater fear than leprosy (Hansen’s disease), and few are as poorly understood. Worldwide, the number of new cases has...

With the arrival of warmer weather, tick bites and tickborne illness trigger renewed confusion regarding antibiotic prophylaxis, treatment...

What can be done about antibiotic resistance?

Rhinosinusitis is the fifth most common condition for which antibiotics are prescribed in the United States—yet the overuse of these drugs to...