Category Archives: – Policy

Renal denervation devices to treat hypertension

William O’Neill, MD of Henry Ford Hospital discusses renal denervation devices used to treat refractory hypertension. He is involved with the Medtronic device trials.

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The Massachusetts General trauma response to the Boston bombings

May 3, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Paul Biddinger, MD, Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness, Massachusetts General

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How Boston medical centers prepare for unconventional weapon attacks

May 3, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Paul Biddinger, MD, Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness, Massachusetts General

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How Boston medical centers prepare for unconventional weapon attacks

May 3, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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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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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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The IOM report on counterfeit and substandard drugs

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

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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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Reasons to Abandon Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Targets

Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD Harlan Krumholz, MD, cardiologist from Yale, discusses his open letter in the journal Circulation

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Update on the DEA’s efforts to curb the “pain pill mill” problem in Florida

March 7, 2012  By Steven Greer, MD We previously interviewed Special Agent Mark Trouville, the DEA agent in charge of tackling the rampant abuse of prescription opioid pain pills in Florida, and the “pain pill mill” system.

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Steven Greer, MD discusses healthcare jobs, ways to reduce hospital error, and the problems with fee for service

February 22, 2012

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The inadequate FDA medical device safety surveillance system: a case study

January 25, 2012 By Steven Greer, MD I have worn contact lenses for more than twenty years without any problems. But recently,

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The only 5-minutes of the Edwards Sapien AdCom you need to watch

Update: June 11, 2012 The FDA briefing documents for the June 13 advisory committee to review the PARTNER-

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The CardioMEMS’ heart failure pressure measurement system

By Steven Greer, MD The CardioMEMS’ heart failure pressure measurement system will be evaluated by an FDA

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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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