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Category Archives: – Medical Devices
Mechanical heart valves provide much lower mortality than tissue valves in young patients
November 8, 2017- by Steven E. Greer, MD Off the radar of Wall Street analysts is a new paper in the NEJM that shows mechanical heart valves, both aortic and mitral, impart much lower mortality than tissue valves in the … Continue reading
Posted in - Medical Devices, - NEJM, Cardiac surgery, Cardiology
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US Senator calls for transparency in medical device pricing
Posted in - Medical Devices, Congress
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What Steve Jobs would have invented if he had lived longer
Update January 29, 2014- Apple posted Q4 earnings so big that they are incomprehensible.
Posted in - Medical Devices, - Opinion
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The bionic pancreas data
July 2, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the early clinical data on the “bionic pancreas”
Interview with the CEO of Neovasc, Alexei Marko
Posted in - Medical Devices, Cardiology, FDA
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This could be the best interview ever aired on Fox Business
August 15, 2017- by Steven E. Greer, MD Martin Shkreli was on Fox Business today, and the set seemed familiar. Ironically, I was in this same
Posted in - Biotech, - Generics, - Medical Devices, - Opinion, - Pharma, - Policy
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Interview with Dexcom’s CEO Terry Gregg
August 11, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Above, in
Posted in - Medical Devices
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The Biggest Healthcare Stories of 2016
December 26, 2016- by Steven E. Greer, MD for The Healthcare Channel Policy changes dominated the 2016 year in healthcare news. There were few important new drug
Posted in - Biotech, - Generics, - Medical Devices, - Opinion, - Pharma, - Policy, - The Weekly Summary, CMS, FDA
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The Biggest stories of 2015
December 31, 2015- by Steven E. Nike Roshe Run Femme Greer, MD 2015 was the year of ISIS. The radical jihadist group started the year with an attack in France,
10-year follow-up on the CREST carotid stenting trial
March 4, 2016- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD The 10-year follow-up data on the CREST carotid stenting vs. CEA trail were published
Tandem Diabetes
August 27, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD
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
Posted in - Medical Devices, - Opinion
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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
Review of the TCT 2015 data
October 19, 2015
Posted in - Medical Devices, Cardiac surgery, Cardiology, Henry Ford
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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
Review of the TAVR data from the 2015 ACC
May 7, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD
Posted in - Medical Devices, Cardiac surgery, Cardiology, UCLA
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The newly approved Edwards Lifesciences Sapien 3 aortic valve
July 5, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed William Suh, MD of UCLA about the newly approved Edwards Lifesciences Sapien
Posted in - Medical Devices, Cardiac surgery, Cardiology, FDA, UCLA
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Astronaut and Senator John Glenn suffers stroke after TAVR
May 14, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD Stroke is the bane of TAVR. In the Edwards Lifesciences Sapien valve, stroke rates exceed 10%.
Posted in - Medical Devices, - Opinion, Cardiology
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Review: The Blackberry Passport works well as a mini laptop in your pocket
April 10, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD I have been testing the new Blackberry Passport smartphone for the last month. Actually, it is more than