Category Archives: Z Medical centers

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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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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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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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

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Does President Trump have “heart disease” based on his Coronary Calcium Score?

Posted on October 7, 2018 by admin

January 20, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD President Trump made news this week by having his doctor, Admiral Ronny Jackson, MD, answer

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KIT inhibition by Gleevec (imatinib) for severe asthma

Posted on September 1, 2018 by admin

May 26, 2017- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Novartis’ Gleevec (imatinib) was approved in the U.S. in 2001 to treat leukemia. Now, researchers

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Antoni Ribas, MD discusses cancer drugs targeting the PD1 signaling pathways

Posted on September 1, 2018 by admin

March 19, 2013- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD The upcoming ASCO meeting will be dominated by numerous presentations relating to new

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The Gluten Crazies are out of control and affecting menus in restaurants

Posted on March 2, 2018 by admin

April 26, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD I was eating at a French restaurant recently, and the waiter asked me if I had any allergies, such as “gluten”.

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