In the late 1970s, a young Robert “Bob” J. Wallace, MD ’82, AAHIVS, was applying to the Florida State University Program in Medical Sciences, a grant-funded expansion program of the University of Florida College of Medicine where accepted students complete their first year of medical school at FSU before transferring for the remainder of their…
I have spent the last four days here in Washington DC attending the American Association or the Study of Liver Disease known as AASLD. It is an international conference were researchers from all over the world gather the present data on the most recent discoveries in liver disease and liver treatment. There were over 5000…
As we are seeing more spread of the monkeypox wanted to give you more information. The monkeypox virus was discovered in Africa in 1958 in monkeys. It mutated to the point it became a human virus that was not spread easily by casual contact, but spread by the body to body contact. We now know…
I recently posted a story about a patient that we lost who had been a long-term HIV survivor. I began reflecting on our last six years in practice as an HIV provider. In that four years, We have only lost three patients who were HIV positive. One died from recurrence of lymphoma and was in…
Apretude, which is injected every two months, is an alternative to daily HIV prevention pills We are proud to announce that Love the Golden Rule Inc. has provided our first patient with the newest treatment for Preexposure Prophylaxis, or PreP, against HIV/AIDS. The medication is an injectable medication that will be given with an initial…
Treatment for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis or PreP has been available to his s him since 2012. The first drug approved for this was Truvada. It was indicated for both men and women for the prevention of HIV infection. It has been very effective and very successful. Soon thereafter, a new formulation of the drug was approved…
Certain states in the US require prescribers to be Specialists to prescribe medication for patients with Hepatitis C. Florida has been one of those states. It requires you to be an Infectious Disease Specialist, a Gastroenterologist, or Hepatologist. Some states will allow those with the specialty from The American Academy of HIV Medicine to prescribe…
On May 3, 2020, Love the Golden Rule Inc. celebrates 7 years of existence. To think that Love the Golden Rule was an idea that is the outcome of having observed the way patients were being treated at homeless shelters. At one facility, patients were left standing in a parking lot and 95° plus weather…
With the Corona virus (Covid-19) taking center stage in our lives right now, many people are terrified. It is a difficult time, as we have never been in this situation before and people don’t know how to respond. The most important thing I learned is to listen to the experts. Dr. Anthony Fauci is a…