Category Archives: Z Medical centers

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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Will healthcare spending really continue at its current pace?

December 9, 2009- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD The consensus among government budget forecasters such as the CBO is that the current growth

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Steven Cummings, MD: The denosumab FREEDOM trial

August 11, 2009- Dr. Steven Cummings, director of the San Francisco Coordinating Center and faculty of UCSF, and

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Sundeep Khosla, MD discusses Amgen’s Denosumab

August 11, 2009- Sundeep Khosla of the Mayo Clinic who authored the NEJM editorial on Amgen’s denosumab

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The unsustainable cost of cancer drugs

June 8, 2009- Interviewed by Steven Greer, MD Leonard Saltz, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses how the targeted

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The SYNTAX trial of stent v CABG

October 8, 2008- by Steven E. Greer, MD A trio of cardiac experts from Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles discusses the SYNTAX trial that

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Robert Litchfield, MD: Knee arthroscopy for arthritis

September 10, 2008 The New England Journal of Medicine has an important landmark study comparing the use

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