Category Archives: Z Medical centers

BRAF and MEK combos for melanoma

Posted on September 18, 2019 by admin

Update October 1, 2015- The FDA approved the use of two drugs, Opdivo and Yervoy, to treat metastatic melanoma, as we first discussed with Dr.  Ribas last year.

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What is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s prognosis?

Posted on September 18, 2019 by admin

December 21, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburd underwent surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering

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Selective publication of positive trials on antidepressants

Posted on August 5, 2019 by admin

January 7, 2008- Interviewed and produced by Steven Greer, MD Erick Turner, MD, psychiatrist at Oregon Health and Science University and former FDA medical

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Catheter approaches for mitral replacement

Posted on April 6, 2019 by admin

March 23, 2014- interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD With catheter based methods for replacing the aorta valve not being adopted as expected, the

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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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Apple, Google, and Amazon need to make their own hospitals

Posted on March 24, 2019 by admin

Update February 27, 2018- Well, they used my idea from two-years ago. Amazon, Warren Buffet,

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital engages in bizarre PR campaign for daily aspirin

Posted on March 20, 2019 by admin

 April 21, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, part of the Harvard University network of hospitals,

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Current surgical weight loss therapies

Posted on March 10, 2019 by admin

January 24, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Erik Dutson, MD, weight loss surgeon at UCLA, explains why his medical center does not implant the Lap-Band,

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Don Berwick, MD: State health insurance exchanges

Posted on February 11, 2019 by admin

April 4, 2012

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Don Berwick, MD: Changing from fee-for-service to bundled payments in Medicare and Medicaid

Posted on February 11, 2019 by admin

April 4, 2012

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Don Berwick, MD: National Coverage Decisions

Posted on February 11, 2019 by admin

December 1, 2013- National Coverage Decisions (NCDs) are used by CMS to set guidelines as to

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Don Berwick, MD: The Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Posted on February 11, 2019 by admin
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Industry conflicts arise at PCORI threatening any real comparative effectiveness research

Posted on February 10, 2019 by admin

February 7, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) was created by the PPACA “ObamaCare” law in 2010.

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Review of immunotherapy and targeted therapy

Posted on January 5, 2019 by admin

June 17, 2016- interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed Siwen Hu-Lieskovan MD, PhD of UCLA, an expert with immunotherapies for melanoma, to go over the

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Insurance companies are not paying for Repatha and Praluent

Posted on December 15, 2018 by admin

Update November 2, 2018- Amgen slashed the annual cost of this drug to $6,000.

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The Deans of Johns Hopkins and Miami discuss ACO’s

Posted on December 11, 2018 by admin

February 28, 2011- By Steven E Greer, MD Dean Miller of Johns Hopkins and Dean Goldschmidt of Miami discuss accountable care organizations,

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Ocrelizumab (Ocrevus) versus Placebo in Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Posted on December 1, 2018 by admin

January 31, 2017- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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The Miami Summit on Healthcare Spending Reduction

Posted on November 29, 2018 by admin

June 29, 2010 Produced and interviewed by Steven Greer, MD The Healthcare Channel and The University of Miami Health System hosted a roundtable discussion

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Book Review: Fat Chance by Robert H. Lustig, MD

Posted on October 25, 2018 by admin

February 9, 2013- by Steven E. Greer, MD How did our ancient ancestors evolve from being pure meat eating carnivore hunters into grain fed

Posted in - Reviews, books, devices, Bariatric surgery, FDA, Gastroenterology and liver, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Primary care medicine, UC San Francisco | Leave a comment