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Category Archives: Z Medical centers
The best hospitals in the country are losing money. Why?
August 12, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD In the course of working on a medical book for the patient population, I just discovered this 2017 Forbes article that explains
Posted in - Policy, Cleveland Clinic, CMS, Columbia, Congress, Cornell, Harvard, NYU, Ohio State, UCLA, Univ Miami, Z Medical centers
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Vaccinations that all adults should have
Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD William Schaffner, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University
The NIH Human Microbiome Project
March 31, 2010- Produced and interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Infectious disease specialist Dr. Vincent Young from the University of Michigan discusses the
Posted in Infectious disease, Michigan, NIH
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The ISCHEMIA trial PI, Judith Hochman, makes egregiously unfounded statements on national TV
November 17, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD The big news from the 2019 American Heart Association meeting is the large trial known by the acronym ISCHEMIA.
Posted in - Opinion, - Pharma, Cardiac surgery, Cardiology, Congress, FDA, Internal Medicine, NYU, VA
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Effects of Spaceflight on Astronaut Brain Structure as Indicated on MRI
November 22, 2017 – Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed Donna Roberts, MD of the Medical University of South Carolina about her NEJM paper
Exclusive: Michael Bloomberg took control of Johns Hopkins with his billions. Then, death rates skyrocketed at a children’s hospital.
Dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine Paul Rothman December 11, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD Ranking colleges and medical centers is a futile, highly subjective, and ludicrous endeavor. Nevertheless,
Posted in - Policy, Cardiac surgery, Cardiology, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Pediatrics
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The MusiCorps benefit concert 2015
October 16, 2015- by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed the Founder of MusiCorps, Arthur Bloom, and one of the musicians in the band,
Crystalloid “Balanced Lactated Ringer’s” IV solution is safer to the kidneys
March 1, 2018- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed Vanderbilt’s Todd Rice, MD about his NEJM papers that showed crystalloid, or
Posted in - NEJM, Cardiac surgery, Cardiology, Emergency medicine, General surgery, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oncology, Orthopedic surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic surgery, Sports medicine, Trauma Surgery, Urology, Vanderbilt, Vascular Surgery
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Don Berwick, MD: Waste in the American Healthcare System
Dr. Berwick, former Director of CMS and former President and CEO of IHI, discusses the percentage
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The Who’s Teen Cancer Lounge at Sloan Kettering opens
March 18, 2016- by Steven E. Greer MD The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center held a press day for its new teen lounge
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Celiac disease is not reduced by breast feeding or delaying the introduction of gluten
October 19, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Alessio Fasano, MD of Harvard discusses his 10-year-long study in children testing whether the
Is Vitamin-D deficiency overdiagnosed?
November 8, 2016- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham
Posted in - NEJM, - Policy, CDC, Diabetes and endocrinology, FDA, Harvard, Primary care medicine
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Benjamin Sommers, MD PhD: Expansion of Medicaid and impact on mortality rates
September 7, 2012
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Pembrolizumab as Second-Line Therapy for Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma
February 27, 2017- interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed Joaquim Bellmunt, MD, PhD, the Director of the Bladder Cancer Center at Dana-Farber,
Preventing HIV infection
July 28, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Rajesh Tim Gandhi, MD of the Massachusetts General Hospital discusses the NEJM review paper he co-wrote
Eluxadoline (Viberzi) to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome
January 20, 2016- Produced, Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed Anthony Lembo, MD of The Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital to discuss his
Posted in - NEJM, - Pharma, Gastroenterology and liver, Harvard
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Paul Richardson, MD: Current Therapies for Multiple Myeloma
December 15, 2015- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD Dr. Paul Richardson, Clinical Director of the Multiple Myeloma Center at Harvard’s Dana-Farber
Posted in - Biotech, - Pharma, Harvard, Oncology
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How did a small academic lab succeed where big medical device companies failed?
July 5, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the early clinical data on the “bionic pancreas”
Triple Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis
October 18, 2018- interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD