In 2009, I was practicing in the emergency department when the H1N1 pandemic emerged. Then, I saw firsthand the vital role infectious disease physicians played in not only facilitating a coordinated ...

The United States is experiencing a dire shortage of infectious disease specialists, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), a medical association based in Arlington, Virginia.

The nation’s leading doctors groups are in a standoff with federal health officials who have attacked long-used, lifesaving ...

Eyeing solutions to the national shortage of infectious disease professionals, a survey commissioned by the Infectious Diseases Society of America found that 65 percent of U.S. adults support ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Few infectious disease physicians are waivered to prescribe buprenorphine, despite being “well-positioned” to ...

For most of the past century, the United States’ track record on infectious disease has been quite good. Thanks to major investments in public health, diseases such as smallpox, polio, yellow fever, ...

About half of infectious disease physicians reported being burned out last year, according to Medscape’s Infectious Disease Physicians Lifestyle & Burnout Report published Feb. 18. Medscape surveyed ...

It’s hard to believe that infectious diseases have become a political litmus test, but they are now very much part of the “with us or against us” mental sorting more and more people seem to be doing ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Traditional medical missions often involve medical professionals from well-resourced, high-income countries traveling to under-resourced, low-income countries to provide health care to ...