Hi all, Obviously I have already been on an informal hiatus, but I’m officially calling it: Barring some guest posts showing up, IM HEAT is on a break until I take the boards on 8/17. Your regularly scheduled programming will resume the following Monday. Thanks for your patience! Bill

Hey that thing I wrote is on Kevin MD! Thanks to Kevin Pho for hosting it. If you liked it when you read it here, sharing that link with your friends is a great way to send it around! New post on this blog coming on Thursday. Sorry for sporadic updates! Being a full time […]

Azithromycin — it’s not just for chlamydia! Shockingly, the good people at Pfizer rejected my suggested slogan, but hey, their loss. Macrolide antibiotics have always occupied an odd spot in medicine, as anything that is killed by macrolides is also killed by strong language or an exceptionally stern glare. What I’m saying is, they’re not […]

In more mad science, we turn our attention to the sodium/glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors. Someone in a pharma lab clearly said “Hey, you know how diabetics have glucosuria when they’re hyperglycemic? Could we use that?” And so now, thanks to the miracles of modern science, you can pee like you’ve got a hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) […]