MEDIA
LIVING BY THE GOLDEN RULE
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…
2022 AASLD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: UPDATES ON HEPATITIS C, HEPATITIS B, AND FATTY LIVER DISEASE.
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…
MONKEYPOX OUTBREAK: AUGUST 2022
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…
Reflection: A Long and Healthy Life with HIV
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…
APRETUDE ARRIVES AT LTGR: INJECTABLE MEDICATION FOR HIV/AIDS
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…
Introducing Cabotegravir – Bimonthly Injectable Prep
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…
BABY IT’S COLD…EXCEPT IN SUNNY ST.PETE.
That song caught a lot of attention during the holiday. It is certainly appropriate for what’s going on outside today. I am praying for those in the North in the Midwest in the upper Northwest were struggling with temperatures below…
CONFERENCE ON RETROVIRUSES AND OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION
Hello and Thank You to our loyal followers. In Seattle this week, 4000 researchers, investigators, and clinicians all come together to review the latest research on retroviruses and opportunistic infections. This conference started in the mid-1990s and has been one…
EVER EXPANDING MEDICAL EXPERTISE ON HIV AND HEPATITIS
Dear Friends, Attending the Conference known as Optimal Management of HIV and Hepatitis this weekend is one of my favorite things to do every Spring. There are usually about 300 Providers, including Pharmacists, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Doctors. It’s a…
LOVE THE GOLDEN RULE FEATURED IN ABC ACTION NEWS TAMPA BAY STORY ON HEPATITIS A
It has been a great week at Love the Golden Rule Inc. I had the opportunity to lecture in Kissimmee, Winter Park, and Jensen Beach. The talks were all on hepatitis C. More exciting is that Wendy Ryan from ABC…
SPREADING AWARENESS: HEPATITIS A EPIDEMIC IN THE TAMPA BAY AREA
The Tampa Bay Area is experiencing an epidemic of Hepatitis A. This is a foodborne illness usually passed by food workers, or by contaminated water. It is generally a self-limited disease with no long-term consequences. Once you develop the antibody…
ST.PETE PRIDE WAS HOT!
St. Petersburg is known for having the largest pride event in the state of Florida. It is estimated that over 200,000 people attend this Pride every year – despite the oppressive Florida heat and humidity. At the Love the Golden…