Editorial Response: Medicare and Outpatient Therapy for Infectious Diseases

Gene therapy for infectious diseases.

Gene therapy is being investigated as an alternative treatment for a wide range of infectious diseases that are not amenable to standard clinical management. Approaches to gene therapy for infectious diseases can be divided into three broad categories: (i) gene therapies based on nucleic acid moieties, including antisense DNA or RNA, RNA decoys, and catalytic RNA moieties (ribozymes); (ii) prot...

T-Cell Therapy: Options for Infectious Diseases

The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis is challenging tuberculosis control worldwide. In the absence of an effective vaccine to prevent primary infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and tuberculosis disease, host-directed therapies may offer therapeutic options, particularly for patients with multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis where prognosis is often limi...

Food Insecurity and Chronic Diseases: The Editorial

Infectious Diseases Society of America position statement on infectious diseases physicians and hospital pharmacists: comment and editorial.

5. Winslade NE, Strand LM, Pugsley JA, et al. Practice functions necessary not reflect the whole membership. This was demonstrated at the for the delivery of pharmaceutical care. Pharmacotherapy 1996;16: September 1997 meeting of the IDSA in San Francisco. During the 889–98. session entitled ‘‘The ID-MD and the ID-Pharm.D.: Cooperation or Conflict?’’, it appeared that many more infectious disea...

Corticosteroids in Infectious Diseases

Accumulated data based on experiences with curtico,teroids in the management uf infectious disea­ses, have proved that they are very dfective and ,afe drugs provided that are administered properly.  The Corticosteroids arc administered mainly be­c,1usc o; antitoxic, antiimflammatory a11d antiallcrgic effects, the cndotoxius are ncuturalized, generalized body reactions are diminished, damaged t...