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Ben Ereshefsky, PharmD

@brainofbpharm.bsky.social

ID pharmacist at VUMC I love to travel, hike, and take pictures

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Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5d ago

El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"

The idea that we can assent to the taking away of anybody’s rights, and think that somehow the government won’t come for all of our rights, is itself the problem. And, look, I don’t need people to understand how they use their rights. I just need people to agree that the government shouldn’t be able to take any of our rights. I put my face on the ground thirty-four times a day, David. Most people don’t understand why I do it. I don’t need them to understand. I just want to have the right to do it. And when people decide that they want to take away my right to do that, I’ve got a problem.Now, I hope that everybody’s going to show up and say, No, no, no. You can’t stop that person or that community from reflecting and praying as they choose. Similarly, when it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s the right to be who you are. It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours, then they come for theirs. And at some point you live in a society where rights are negotiable, and that is not the America I was born in. It’s not the America I know and love. It’s not the America I’m going to allow somebody like Donald Trump to give us.
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ah yes, when it comes to making a decision about whether or not to approve an experimental unproven drug, it is CRUCIAL to ensure that “sellers” of the product—the ones with the most extreme financial conflicts of interests—get to decide! MAHA is just grift & blatant corruption

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration, several of them sellers of experimental peptides, dismissed the concerns of the agency’s scientists on Thursday, voting in favor of allowing broad production of poorly understood peptide treatments.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Tom Boyles@tomboylesid.bsky.social · 4w ago

An excellent appraisal of the most up to date evidence in Staph Aureus Bacteraemia led by Anna Goodman. academic.oup.com/jac/article/...

A review of the randomized clinical trial results from the Staphylococcus aureus network adaptive platform (SNAP) meticillin-susceptible (MSSA) and penicillin-susceptible (PSSA) domains and CloCeBa

Abstract. Current guidelines for the management of meticillin-susceptible Staphyloccocus aureus bloodstream infection/bacteraemia (SAB) recommend intraveno

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Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟@absteward.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔥Just published 🔥NEJM SNAP RCT In patients with MSSA bacteremia, cefazolin was noninferior to flucloxacillin or cloxacillin with respect to 90-day mortality and was associated with a lower incidence of acute kidney injury. #idsky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Cefazolin for Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia | NEJM

Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is associated with high mortality. Whether cefazolin or an antistaphylococcal penicillin should be preferred for the treatment of methicillin-susceptible S. aureus ...

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Ilan Schwartz@germhuntermd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Phase 2 RCT of Nitazoxanide in chronic norovirus infection among transplant recipients found no difference in time to symptom resolution @michaelisonmd.bsky.social #TxID #IDSky www.amjtransplant.org/article/S160...

A Phase 2 Multi-Center, Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Study to Assess the Clinical and Antiviral Efficacy and Safety of Nitazoxanide for the Treatment of Norovirus in Hematopoietic Stem Cell a...

Norovirus (NoV) may cause or contribute to chronic diarrhea among immunocompromised hosts. Neither vaccines nor antiviral therapies are available to prevent or treat NoV. We conducted an NIH-sponsored...

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University of Minnesota Infectious Diseases@umn-idim.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 New research alert! For early postoperative spinal implant infections (PSII) managed with debridement and implant retention, is longer antibiotic therapy always better? Our team, alongside 9 other academic centers, evaluated 499 patients to find out. #IDSky

Antibiotic Duration after Debridement and Implant Retention for Early Postoperative Spinal Implant Infections: A Multicenter Cohort Study

In this multicenter retrospective cohort of 499 patients with early postoperative spinal implant infection managed by debridement and implant retention, ex

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Ben Ereshefsky, PharmD@brainofbpharm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wow, I wish our mindset here in the US was to discharge patients on PO ABX as option #1 and IV only if necessary. #IDSky

Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟@absteward.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🔥Just published 2026 Updated good practice recommendations for OPAT in adults & children in the UK Oral antimicrobial therapy should always be used in preference to IV where these have equivalent efficacy unless there are other relevant factors* #idsky academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic...

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NGL the last few days were rough for folks working in public health—RFK Jr’s horrific lies, his extraordinarily vile eugenics, his blaming infectious diseases on immigrants, his refusal to take any responsibility for the measles crisis or its control & the appointment of a tobacco executive at CDC 🫣

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4mo ago

~53,000 military personnel died in combat in WW1. ~45,000 other soldiers died from the flu. #PeteHegseth may be ignorant of history, careless about the lives of those in uniform, but the army remembers. www.army.mil/article/2104...

Worldwide flu outbreak killed 45,000 American Soldiers during World War I

In September 1918 there were two killers in the world. World War I, which would claim 20 million lives by its end, and the flu pandemic known as the Spanish Flu, is estimated to have killed between at...

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Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

A graph titled “the public health success of the measles vaccine” that shows the number of measles cases in the United States plummeting after the vaccine was introduced in 1963