Category Archives: – Policy

“Non-profit” hospital CEOs make well more than $10 million a year

Posted on July 14, 2019 by admin

June 28, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Angela Merkel’s standing leg tremors

Posted on July 13, 2019 by admin

June 18, 2019- Angela Merkel seems to

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Why Americans should care deeply about the loss of freedom in other countries

Posted on July 12, 2019 by admin

June 9, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Making the news today is how a Canadian man was actually arrested for the crime of grossly

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President Trump talks about plans to make hospital pricing transparent

Posted on July 10, 2019 by admin

July 10, 2019

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Daily aspirin once again proves to be of no use and also deadly

Posted on July 7, 2019 by admin

Update January 13, 2015- Yet another study was published highlighting the risks of daily aspirin. 

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The new CDC guidelines for prescribing opioid pain pills

Posted on July 4, 2019 by admin

June 1, 2016- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Pain pill prescriptions have quadrupled since the 1990’s as drug companies stepped up marketing and funded

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TV commercial for Boston Scientific’s Watchman A-fib device

Posted on July 3, 2019 by admin

April 23, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Triple Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis

Posted on July 3, 2019 by admin

October 18, 2018- interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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I can’t get no satisfaction (from TAVR)

Posted on July 1, 2019 by admin

Update April 6, 2019- An expert source told us that Mick Jagger did have genuine aortic stenosis.

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The 23andMe TV ads are misleading

Posted on June 8, 2019 by admin

April 22, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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The FDA pathway for biosimilar drug approvals

Posted on June 6, 2019 by admin

March 26, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer,

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TV Quack Dr. David Agus still likes daily aspirin despite heart guidelines dropping it

Posted on June 1, 2019 by admin

March 23, 2019

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Essay: How Google accidentally invented surveillance capitalism

Posted on June 1, 2019 by admin

March 24, 2019- by Steven E. Greer I read a few more pages of Surveillance Capitalism (it will be a tough slog to finish this). As

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The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much

Posted on June 1, 2019 by admin

April 5, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD The New York Times has a nice essay explaining why college tuition is out of control. They first

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Essay: Opioids coming through the Mexican border are a national security risk

Posted on May 12, 2019 by admin

Update January 8, 2019- President Trump quoted from this story tonight during his talk from the Ova

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The MusiCorps benefit concert 2015

Posted on May 11, 2019 by admin

October 16, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed the Founder of MusiCorps, Arthur Bloom, and one of the musicians in the band,

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Atul Gawande’s surgical checklist fails in real world study

Posted on April 5, 2019 by admin

March 15, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD In 2009, Atul Gawande, MD, MPH and his large international team published in the New England

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Google wants your medical records

Posted on March 24, 2019 by admin

December 19, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD In Part 3 of our interview with Robert Klitzman, MD, ethics professor at Columbia University,

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Google’s Larry Page wants your medical records to be public for “research”

Posted on March 24, 2019 by admin

March 20, 2014-By Steven E. Greer, MD Charlie Rose interviewed Google founder Larry Page at the 2014 TED conference. During the talk, Mr.

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Google wants your DNA now (Not just with 23andMe)

Posted on March 24, 2019 by admin

Opinion December 17, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Wall Street Journal published an article explaining how the pharmaceutical industry data mines

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