Category Archives: Z Medical centers

anti-PD1 and anti-PD-L1 drugs treating NSCLC

March 26, 2013 Interviewed By Steven E. Greer, MD

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The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation panel

March 8, 2013  By Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed three of the oncologists and industry executives who spoke at the Damon Runyon

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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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Double arm transplantation

Gerald Brandacher, MD, Scientific Director of the  Composite Tissue Allotransplantation (Reconstructive Transplant) Program at Johns Hopkins discusses the first double arm transplant.

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New therapies for Multiple Sclerosis

Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Barbara Giesser, MD, neurologist and Medical Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at UCLA, discusses the

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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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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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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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Matthews Chacko, MD: Renal denervation to treat HTN

December 29, 2010 Many medical devices cause a far greater clinical impact than pharmaceutical therapies such

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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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Cardiology genomic, stem cell, and interventional research at U. Miami

May 13, 2011- The Healthcare Channel hosted, in conjunction with Mark Schoenebaum of ISI, a tour of the

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Paul Richardson, MD: Three-drug regimen for multiple myeloma

December 15, 2015 Dr. Paul Richardson of Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reviews the recent Lancet article

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Benjamin Sommers, MD PhD: the challenges of expanding Medicaid

November 23, 2010- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD Under the ACA health insurance reform laws, approximately 16 million new Medicaid patients

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Will more Medicaid patients stress the system financially?

November 23, 2010- Interviewed by Steven Greer MD Under the ACA health insurance reform laws, approximately 16 million new Medicaid patients

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Review of the CREST trial of carotid stenting

The CREST trial, published earlier this year, was the latest large-scale, randomized, controlled

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Early palliative care improves outcomes in lung cancer patients

August 30, 2010- Produced and interviewed by Steven Greer, MD A group from Harvard published a paper in The NEJM that showed early initiation of palliative

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Managing stroke and bleeding with LVAD patients

August 2, 2010- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD As continuous flow pump LVAD devices are being implanted for longer periods of time in destination

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Exclusive: Why did Dr. Nissen resort to secret tapes?

February 23, 2010– By Steven E. Greer, MD Many in the cardiology community are a bit confused as to why Dr. Steven Nissen resorted

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