by dtrubin | Apr 1, 2020 | Coronavirus, Rubin's Reflections
By David T. Rubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine Here are some improvements in testing for SARS-COV-2 and COVID-19 and how I think they will transform what we are doing: 1. Faster Viral Tests for SARS-CoV-2. Several companies have adapted...
by dtrubin | Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, Rubin's Reflections
By David T. Rubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine Dear Colleagues, Here is my understanding of the different stages through which SARS-CoV-2 becomes COVID-19. I also added some thoughts on how we can prevent these stages and treat patients....
by dtrubin | Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, Rubin's Reflections
By David T. Rubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine Dear Colleagues, A lot of concern has recently come up regarding pregnancy in the setting of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Here are some key points I found on this issue: Pregnancy is a state of...
by dtrubin | Mar 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, Rubin's Reflections
By David T. Rubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine (Posted to IBD-circle.within3.com on March 21, 2020) Colleagues, A question that has come up recently is how we should approach treating active IBD during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Here are my...
by dtrubin | Mar 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, Rubin's Reflections
By David T. Rubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine (Posted to IBD-circle.within3.com on March 21, 2020) Dear Colleagues, I have been fielding lots of questions about whether our IBD patients on immune therapies should stay home from work....
by dtrubin | Dec 6, 2019 | histology, normalization, Rubin's Reflections
The FDA and others have been interested in the role of histology for assessing “deeper” levels of disease control, with the premise that biopsy may reflect the state of the disease more accurately and perhaps more objectively than endoscopy, and certainly more than...
