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Interview with The Commissioner of the FDA

February 16,  2011- by Steven Greer, MD In Part 1 of our interview with Margaret Hamburg, MD, The Commissioner of the FDA, she discusses

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Paul Richardson, MD: Three-drug regimen for multiple myeloma

December 15, 2015 Dr. Paul Richardson of Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reviews the recent Lancet article

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Benjamin Sommers, MD PhD: the challenges of expanding Medicaid

November 23, 2010- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD Under the ACA health insurance reform laws, approximately 16 million new Medicaid patients

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Will more Medicaid patients stress the system financially?

November 23, 2010- Interviewed by Steven Greer MD Under the ACA health insurance reform laws, approximately 16 million new Medicaid patients

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Review of the CREST trial of carotid stenting

The CREST trial, published earlier this year, was the latest large-scale, randomized, controlled

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Early palliative care improves outcomes in lung cancer patients

August 30, 2010- Produced and interviewed by Steven Greer, MD A group from Harvard published a paper in The NEJM that showed early initiation of palliative

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Managing stroke and bleeding with LVAD patients

August 2, 2010- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD As continuous flow pump LVAD devices are being implanted for longer periods of time in destination

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Exclusive: Why did Dr. Nissen resort to secret tapes?

February 23, 2010– By Steven E. Greer, MD Many in the cardiology community are a bit confused as to why Dr. Steven Nissen resorted

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Will healthcare spending really continue at its current pace?

December 9, 2009- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD The consensus among government budget forecasters such as the CBO is that the current growth

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Surgical masks do work to prevent the spread of flu

October 1, 2009- By Steven E. Greer, MD Are billions of people around the globe foolish for wearing facemasks to protect against the flu?

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The CDC discusses Gardasil HPV vaccine safety

September 6, 2009- Produced and interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Dr. Barbara Slade of the CDC discusses her recent JAMA article on the safety and adverse event reports for Merck’s HPV cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil. Back in 1976, a … Continue reading

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Steven Cummings, MD: The denosumab FREEDOM trial

August 11, 2009- Dr. Steven Cummings, director of the San Francisco Coordinating Center and faculty of UCSF, and

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Sundeep Khosla, MD discusses Amgen’s Denosumab

August 11, 2009- Sundeep Khosla of the Mayo Clinic who authored the NEJM editorial on Amgen’s denosumab

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The unsustainable cost of cancer drugs

June 8, 2009- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD Leonard Saltz, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses how the targeted

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Michael Burgess, MD: House plans for healthcare reform

May 19, 2009- Representative Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX) discusses the early stages of the House healthcare reform bill.  

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The SYNTAX trial of stent v CABG

October 8, 2008- by Steven E. Greer, MD A trio of cardiac experts from Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles discusses the SYNTAX trial that

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TIMI 38 and prasugrel

March 3, 2008- by Steven E. Greer, MD One of the more important presentations at the upcoming American College of Cardiology

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The Medtronic CoreValve program

September 13, 2009- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Robert Litchfield, MD: Knee arthroscopy for arthritis

September 10, 2008 The New England Journal of Medicine has an important landmark study comparing the use

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Interviews with Steven Greer, MD

A sampling of some interviews with Dr. Steven Greer

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