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Rand Paul’s secret Looney Tune side revealed

http://youtu.be/AlWcDDZ1w38 February 2, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD People have asked me my opinion of the Republican field for 2016 and I have told them that Dr. Rand

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Overview of rHGH therapy

January 14, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed Dr. Shlomo Melmed, Director of the Clinical Research Institute and Dean of Faculty at

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Ezekiel Emanuel pens essay urging Americans to skip the annual physical exam with their doctor

January 9, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, the brother of former White House Chief of Staff Rahm, and of Hollywood

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Review: “Who I Am”: The Pete Townshend autobiography

For the PDF version, click the following link: Review Pete Townshend December 30, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD In his 538-page autobiography,

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Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says

December 19, 2014- The Washington Post reports, “And now, his work has come under even greater scrutiny

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Bill O’Reilly’s flagrantly sexist comments about Senator Elizabeth Warren

December 16, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD As cable TV ratings fall across the board, and Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly ages and loses his foothold

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The police need better tools for subduing the mentally insane other than bullets

December 9, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD All across the country, for the last several weeks, organized protests of thousands of people

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CEO’s of “Non-profit” hospitals rake in millions

December 7, 2014- The NY Post reports the list of multi-million-dollar salaries enjoyed by CEO’s of the major

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Uber, better and cheaper, poised to put yellow taxis out of business

November 27, 2014- By Steven E. Greer The biggest quality of life problem for New Yorkers is transportation (or perhaps high housing costs).

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Lethal force in Ferguson was unnecessary, yet few lessons seem to have been learned

November 26, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD There are huge problems with most police forces in this country. However, despite all of the riots

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Most people have insurance not yet impacted by Obamacare

November 21, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD With so much news in the national press focusing on the Obamacare exchanges and new healthcare

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Quarantining Ebola caregivers arriving from Africa is the right thing to do

https://youtu.be/CpGhHePi_MQ Update November 6, 2014- Despite more than 80% of responders in various polls feeling

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Using Afrezza inhaled insulin with a CGM

November 3, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Inhaled insulin will make a comeback when Mannkind’s drug, Afrezza, goes on sale in early 2015.

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Hacking CGM’s to smartphones

October 31, 2014– Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Type 1 diabetes patients using continuous glucose monitors have been creating their own software,

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What you need to know about ISIS

October 29, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD I saw the most recent episode of the PBS show Frontline that explained how ISIS rose to power. I was alarmed to learn that this is a very real and local threat, … Continue reading

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The NEJM editorial board blew it on anti-quarantine Ebola essay

October 28, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Jeffrey Drazen and the other editors of the New England Journal of Medicine rushed out an opinion

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The Dallas hospital administrators who botched Ebola were likely criminals, not just incompetent

October 19, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The mainstream media has correctly reported on the numerous missteps made by the Dallas

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Cutting through the hype surrounding gluten

October 19, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Did you know that one out of three Americans think that they are “gluten intolerant”. Of those 100

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A proposal to make the Social History more robust and proactive

October 2, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Joseph Rhatigan, MD of Harvard Medical School published a paper in the NEJM proposing

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Long-term contraception is effective and underutilized

October 1, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer Jeffrey F. Peipert, M.D., Ph.D. of Washington university discusses his original article in the NEJM

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