ID Chief @ UMich
Account of Adam Lauring, MD, PhD. Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. News and tidbits from the Division and about ID.
- Great write-up about Owen Albin in our ID Division and research on antibiotic use - and stewardship - in the ICU. medschool.umich.edu/departments/...
- More on the super cool banana lectin story from David Markovitz in the Division. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
- Nice JAMA patient page piece on Typhoid Fever by @lcahuaymemd.bsky.social and @runwithskizzers.bsky.social. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- Guess whose kid had the best bag for camp today?
- New from Emily Abdoler and colleagues...Incorporating management reasoning into teaching rounds #IDsky link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Retweeting again in the hopes that members of the media can use this awesome resource when they report on vaccines and calls for "new" placebo controlled trials. @statnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @carlzimmer.com @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
- < 72 h from launch → 48 placebo / active-controlled vaccine RCTs logged - now including all 5 COVID trials 1.43 M participants Crowd-powered, freely accessible evidence that buries the “never placebo-tested” myth. Browse or drop a PMID 👇 bit.ly/3EuYzqI cc @bradspellberg.bsky.social
- Good and important read www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Not good www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- Write up of our work in a UM report on “Real world impacts of federally funded research” research.umich.edu/research-sto...
- New work from the lab out in @plos.org pathogens. We used serial sampling of people in a household cohort to look at within-host dynamics of and selection of mutations in SARS-CoV-2. Great collaboration with colleagues at CDC, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. #IDsky doi.org/10.1371/jour...
- For all you infection preventionists out there...new guidelines on high-level disinfection! From an expert panel, including our own Laraine Washer. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Great talk “Mentoring in a time of scientific disruption”by Kimryn Rathmell at AAP/ASCI/APSA meeting.
- Great to have Colleen Kraft here from Emory to talk about her work with FMT and AMR #IDsky
- Really excited to be a part of this study and see it published today! Efficacy of Baloxavir Treatment in Preventing Transmission of Influenza | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- This is great! I think the numbers on the Salk vaccine trial were even bigger than this. See pinned post on my profile with linked NEJM historial piece.
- Alright folks, the amazing @jakescottmd.bsky.social has set up a google sheets for you to crowd source published RCTs of vaccines. Editable sheet (starter trials seeded): bit.ly/3EuYzqI As data are imported, the website will autoupdate. Have at it! www.bradspellberg.com/vaccine-rcts
- Another use for zosyn?! 😂 A high-resolution screen identifies a preexisting beta-lactam that specifically treats Lyme disease in mice | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Rejoining social media. Hope to re-engage with old follows/followers. Banner is Michigan Daily headline when IPV trial results announced at UM. And, yes this was an RCT of a vaccine. April 12, 1955 — Tommy Francis and the Salk Vaccine | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- Recent Clinical Implications of Basic Research piece from Vince Young...Vaccinating against Clostridioides difficile Infection | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- David Markovitz and Kathy Collins from the Division of ID named AAAS fellows! news.umich.edu/13-u-m-facul...
