Laboratory testing and sepsis
In this podcast, which is a short segment from a comprehensive interview about sepsis I had with infectious disease physician, Steven LaRosa, MD this past weekend on the radio show, I pulled out an in...
26 Sep 20177min
Sepsis: An interview with Steven LaRosa, MD
According to the Sepsis Alliance, sepsis has been named as the most expensive in-patient cost in American hospitals costing billions each year with forty percent of patients diagnosed with severe seps...
25 Sep 201739min
Antibiotic crisis looming: Osterholm's thoughts
I woke up to this headline in my inbox from the WHO--"The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO report confirms"....Yikes! A new WHO report was published today Antibacterial agents in clinical deve...
20 Sep 20179min
MERS: Will it ever spread out of the Arabian peninsula such that the rest of the world should be concerned?
In the spring of 2012, a Saudi Arabian man developed symptoms resembling severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. However, it wasn't caused by the SARS coronavirus. Instead it was identified as a n...
20 Sep 201713min
Brucella RB51, pasteurization and the risks of consuming raw milk
One of the bigger stories in recent weeks is the situation of human infections with a strain of Brucella, known as RB51, linked to the consumption of raw, or unpasteurized milk. Senior Associate with ...
18 Sep 201713min
Bacteriophage therapy: A remarkable story
In this interview from the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show in May 2017, we looked at this amazing story of an individual with a multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection and the use of...
16 Sep 201717min
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and the importance of timely treatment with doxycycline
CDC epidemiologist and author of a recent study published in The Journal of Pediatrics, Dr. Jennifer McQuiston joined me to talk about the tick borne disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) and t...
6 Sep 201712min
Japanese encephalitis, the Philippines and the need to put the vaccine on the national schedule
In an interview from the radio show in March 2015, I spoke to pediatric infectious disease specialist and research associate professor at the University of the Philippines in Manila, Dr Anna Lena Lope...
4 Sep 20179min
