Category Archives: – Policy

The 23andMe home genetics test kit controversy

Posted on November 26, 2017 by admin

December 19, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer,  MD

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2017 is the Year of the Woman

Posted on November 19, 2017 by admin

November 19, 2017- by Steven E. Greer, MD I am actually surprised at the level of controversy that the Senator Al Franken groping picture has created.

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Changes in plastic surgery training programs

Posted on November 17, 2017 by admin

March 3, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD In Part 1 of our interview with the new Chairman of Plastic Surgery at NYU, Eduardo Rodriguez,

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Interview with the CEO of Neovasc, Alexei Marko

Posted on November 17, 2017 by admin
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This could be the best interview ever aired on Fox Business

Posted on November 15, 2017 by admin

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

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Review: Walk-in urgent care centers are the way to go

Posted on November 6, 2017 by admin

January 6, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD A patient asked for my help yesterday with a sinus infection that was lingering. I referred him to

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Trump made a big mistake wading into the quagmire of healthcare

Posted on October 25, 2017 by admin

Is President Obama foreseeing the future here and having a laugh? May 7, 2017- Opinion by Steven E. Greer, MD I watched Face the Nation and the news coverage of Friday town hall meetings. Mick Mulvaney was

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We need intelligent doctors, not memory savants

Posted on October 5, 2017 by admin

February 15, 2014- Opinion, By Steven E. Greer, MD The ability to get a joke, or comprehend that a sarcastic comment was meant as humor, requires

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The ACA’s THC program: A pilot program to fund residency training outside of the traditional hospital setting

Posted on September 1, 2017 by admin

September 6, 2016- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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The new 80-hour work week surgery residency

Posted on September 1, 2017 by admin

July 24, 2011- The Surgeon-in-Chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital,

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Interview with the CEO of Synthetic Biologics, Jeff Riley

Posted on September 1, 2017 by admin

February 8, 2016- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Told you so: The reason this country is close to an 18th-Century-style revolution

Posted on August 15, 2017 by admin

Update August 13- Told you so. The race riots in Charlottesville, Virginia are exactly what

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CBS News Promotes More Pro-Coffee Junk Science

Posted on July 11, 2017 by admin

July 11, 2017- by Steven E. Greer, MD How does one become a successful TV medical doctor pundit? First, you have to leave your medical ethics

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The Biggest Healthcare Stories of 2016

Posted on December 26, 2016 by admin

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

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The Biggest stories of 2015

Posted on October 20, 2016 by admin

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,

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Robert De Niro gives credibility to vaccine truthers

Posted on October 14, 2016 by admin

Update March 27, 2016- Less than 24-hours after our story, this film has been pulled from the lineup. It was our story that got the heads of

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NY Times reports that CMMI “research” is junk science

Posted on October 1, 2016 by admin

February 3, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Healthcare Channel was the first to report in 2012 that the new CMMI, created by the ACA “

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Letter to the Dean of Harvard medical school about conflicts of interest

Posted on September 30, 2016 by admin

Jeffrey Flier, MD, Dean, Harvard School of Medicine

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Doctors complain to Columbia about Dr. Oz

Posted on September 30, 2016 by admin

https://youtu.be/bqihqFTyyfw Update April 21, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD As a direct result of our posting of the letter, below, the New York Times then national TV news

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CBS promotes outrageous pro-coffee research, again

Posted on May 8, 2016 by admin

Update May 8, 2016- HBO’s John Oliver focused on this problem of TV news misrepresenting the

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