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A second blow to Atul Gawande (and Obamacare)

December 15, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon working at one of the Harvard affiliated hospitals, wrote an influential essay in the

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Book Review: The Unwinding

March 13, 2016- by Steven E. Greer, MD Sometimes, things sit around your house for so long that you forget they are there. I bought

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President Obama’s legacy is one of an administration that handles crisis by denial

March 23, 2016- by Steven E. Greer, MD On March 22nd, yet another major ISIS attack took place in Brussels, Belgium.  A few hours later,

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Man who oversaw one of the biggest academic research frauds in medical history is poised to become the next FDA Commissioner

Update February 7, 2016- Key senators, including Bernie Sanders, are now threatening to filibuster

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The telomerase inhibitor Imetelstat developed by Geron

September 9, 2015-

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Tandem Diabetes

August 27, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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American state-sponsored media

January 4, 2016- by Steven E. Greer The American media is becoming as bad as Russian state-sponsored media, literally. The national

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You can now buy “medical marijuana” in New York

January 7, 2016- by Steven E. Greer, MD The medical marijuana dispensaries in New York are now open. However, you might be disappointed.

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Are the new PCSK9 cholesterol lowering drugs worth the high cost?

December 16, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Why are Google, Facebook, and Twitter allowed to promote ISIS?

Update November 19, 2015- The mastermind of the ISIS attacks on Paris, Abdelhamid Abaaoud,

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The similarities between Cuba and Syria

November 18, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD I watched a PBS documentary of Fidel Castro called The Fidel Castro Tapes. The similarities

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The first ever use of Facetime to receive help from an Apple store team

November 13, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD Today was an historic day. I became the first person ever to use Apple Facetime to receive assistance

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Review: The new iMac is unsuitable for the serious worker

November 10, 2015- by Steven E. Greer I recently purchased the new 27-inch iMac after enjoying my new iPhone and Apple TV. I finally

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The NIH SPRINT trial on aggressive management of hypertension was rendered useless by the investigators

Update November 9, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD The NEJM published the SPRINT data today to coincide with the AHA meeting. However, the editors also wrote a not-too-enthusiastic editorial.

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Review of the TCT 2015 data

October 19, 2015

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All of a sudden, gadgets from Sci-Fi movies are a reality

October 4, 2014- by Steven E. Greer, MD These electric unicycles, and other designs like them, are now only $300, thanks to factories

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Sopranos Stories

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Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, could be the Bernie Madoff of the drug industry

September 22, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD Making national news today was Martin Shkreli, the baby-faced, greasy-haired, disheveled-looking

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Review of the TAVR data from the 2015 ACC

May 7, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Stephen Colbert mocks the new “female viagra” flibanserin

September 20, 2015- Well, the real CBS news did an atrocious job covering this story, so the fake newsman

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