I will be in Columbus, OH for the Region IV (Ohio) meeting to lecture on June 3, 2010. I have been given the “Learning Lunch” spot from 12:00 to 1:30 and plan on covering a broad range of lower extremity …
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I just returned from a lecture trip to Turkey where I had the privilege of giving 5 talks, one in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya at a nationwide Hospital Infection Congress and 4 to the faculties at various medical …
Read more →Up to this point I have resisted using this blog as a “social networking” tool to just post pictures of myself lecturing someplace or another. It has been my contention that readers of this site are interested in new science …
Read more →(My thanks to David Armstrong, DPM, PhD for bringing this press release to my attention) TaiGen Announces Nemonoxacin (TG-873870) Once-A-Day Oral Dosing in Diabetic Foot Infection Met Primary Endpoints According to its manufacturer TaiGen, nemonoxacin, a novel, non-fluorinated quinolone has …
Read more →For a number of years I have been presenting a lecture entitled “Differentiating infected from non-infected wounds”. As part of that talk I discuss the role of topical antimicrobials in wound healing. Despite there being a countless number of silver …
Read more →Telavancin (Vibativ – Theravance/Astellas) is a novel lipoglycopeptide, related to vancomycin, that has been recently approved by the FDA for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI) caused by MRSA. Telavancin now joins the ranks of vancomycin, …
Read more →Some interesting news just came out yesterday. It looks like J&J’s new anti-MRSA cephalosporin, ceftobiprole has been, once again, turned back by the FDA. See the story here: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0572888.htm Many of us had pretty high hopes for this antibiotic as …
Read more →On Barry Block’s daily PM News (www.podiatrym.com) the other day a colleague presented a case of a neuropathic patient with no wounds presenting with what he felt was osteomyelitis of the 2nd and 3rd metatarsals. Although I did not feel …
Read more →Dr. Todd Divan, a podiatric physician from Potomac, IL, sent me an excellent question via personal email. On the belief that if one person asks a question, many others may be thinking the same thing, I reprint the question and …
Read more →I am pleased to announce that we have just posted a few pages from the Ulceration and Infection section of the newly revised Diabetic Foot Infection chapter of the 3rd Edition of the Handbook. Just go to “Preview the Book” …
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