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Is cath lab fluoroscopy radiation exposure dangerous?

April 25, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD With former President George W. Bush receiving a coronary stent and cardiac chest CT-scan,

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FDA official, William Maisel, pleads guilty to crime, keeps job

April 24, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD In July of 2012, the New York Times reported on an FDA scandal of the agency spying on internal

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Questionable comments by Atul Gawande after the Boston Marathon bombings

April 20, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD Only two days after the April 15th Boston Marathon terrorist bombings, Harvard surgeon Atul

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TAVR Finances: William O’Neill, MD

Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD The clinical adoption of  Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) has been slower than

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TAVR collaboration

April 12, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD William O’Neill, MD, Director of the Structural Heart Disease Center at Henry Ford Hospital,

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Smartphone apps to be regulated and taxed as medical devices

March 26, 2013 Which smartphone apps will the FDA label as a medical device making them taxable tax under

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anti-PD1 and anti-PD-L1 drugs treating NSCLC

March 26, 2013 Interviewed By Steven E. Greer, MD

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Watchman shot dead

March 10, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD  The Healthcare Channel PREVAIL, the much anticipated second major trial of the Boston Scientific device called Watchman was a bust. The trial endpoints were changed in midstream of the trial, but it … Continue reading

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Second-gen Sapien TAVI valve does not reduce stroke problem

March 10, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD  The Healthcare Channel The main reason that Medicare has limited coverage for the Edwards Lifesciences (EW) Sapien percutaneous aortic valve is the high perioperative complication rate of ischemic strokes, in excess of … Continue reading

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The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation panel

March 8, 2013  By Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed three of the oncologists and industry executives who spoke at the Damon Runyon

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The IOM report on counterfeit and substandard drugs

Prashant Yadav, PhD, Director, Health Care Research Initiative, University of Michigan, discusses

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Double arm transplantation

Gerald Brandacher, MD, Scientific Director of the  Composite Tissue Allotransplantation (Reconstructive Transplant) Program at Johns Hopkins discusses the first double arm transplant.

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Wall Street Journal articles

Greer SE. Inside ObamaCare’s Grant-Making. Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal. June 4, 2012 Greer SE. Pork is Clogging CMMI’s Arteries. Letter section in The Wall Street Journal. June 20, 2012 Avastin for breast cancer

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New therapies for Multiple Sclerosis

Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Barbara Giesser, MD, neurologist and Medical Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at UCLA, discusses the

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High fructose consumption and fatty liver disease

Manal F. Abdelmalek, MD, MPH, of the Duke Medical Center’s Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology

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Will medical centers be able to change leadership structure to conform to the PPACA “ObamaCare”?

June 30, 2012, by Steven Greer, MD The Supreme Court ruled that the PPACA “ObamaCare” law was constitutional in most aspects.

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RomneyCare ballooned healthcare costs in Massachusetts

June 24, 2012 CBS News interviewed the Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, about the cost increases

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Pork Is Clogging CMMI’s Arteries

June 20, 2012- in the WSJ– by Steven E. Greer, MD Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Director Richard Gilfillan’s reply (Letters, June 14) to my op-ed of June 5 says that my accusations “are baseless.” This was backed up … Continue reading

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Inside ObamaCare’s Grant-Making: CMMI

June 4, 2012- In the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed section– by Steven E. Greer Early this year, I was briefly involved with one of the Affordable Care Act’s bureaucracies called

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Does Steve Nissen manipulate the media?

April 5, 2010 Opinion By Steven E. Greer, MD The New York Times recently ran a front-page story raising concern about expanding the indication for statins to people with normal cholesterol levels, per the Crestor JUPITER trial. The article mentioned … Continue reading

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