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View ArticleCBS allows TV doctor to make egregious claims about statins
Can a “calculator” really tell doctors who should be on Lipitor? Nortin Hadler, MD: lack of evidence for widespread statin use The risk of diabetes associated with statin drugs “You’re telling me this...
View ArticleBook review of “Fat Chance” by Robert H. Lustig, MD
February 9, 2013 Book Review by Steven E. Greer, MD How did our ancient ancestors evolve from being pure meat eating carnivore hunters into grain fed farmers, and which diet is healthier? With nearly 7...
View ArticleI was in the delivery room when Obamacare was born
December 1, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD With Obamacare such a disaster now, it is interesting to look back at the very first time the legislation was started into action by the new Obama...
View ArticleGoogle wants your DNA now (Not just with 23andMe)
Opinion December 17, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Wall Street Journal published an article explaining how the pharmaceutical industry data mines credit card records, Internet traffic patterns, and...
View ArticleThe biggest healthcare stories of 2013
December 23, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD Like a broken record, 2013 was yet another tough year for healthcare companies. Several forces are currently changing the supply and demand curve for...
View ArticleEarly stoppage of clinical trials
Dr. Guyatt explained in a previous post why early stoppage of clinical trials results in falsely inflated efficacy of the therapy being studied. The April 16, 2009 edition of The New England Journal of...
View ArticleTwitter interview with banned-for-life Wall Street tech analyst Henry Blodget
January 11, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Disgraced Wall Street sell-side technology sector analyst, Henry Blodget, who was banned for life by the SEC from working in Wall Street, is making a comeback...
View ArticleWhy the lack of outrage over smoking depicted in film and television?
To Senators Dick Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, Sherrod Brown, and Edward Markey cc: Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cc: Ari Emanuel, CEO, William Morris Endeavor...
View ArticleThe Weekly Summary
January 27th – February 2nd In the general news, the State of the Union speech was uneventful. In Atlanta, a bumbling government allowed 2-inches of snow to strand thousands of cars on the freeways for...
View ArticleNY Times reports that CMMI “research” is junk science
February 3, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Healthcare Channel was the first to report in 2012 that the new CMMI, created by the ACA “Obamacare” law, was nothing but a pork project designed to deliver...
View ArticleIndustry conflicts arise at PCORI threatening any real comparative...
February 7, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) was created by the PPACA “ObamaCare” law in 2010. Well-funded with approximately $3 Billion over ten...
View ArticleWe need intelligent doctors, not memory savants
February 15, 2014- Opinion, By Steven E. Greer, MD The ability to get a joke, or comprehend that a sarcastic comment was meant as humor, requires high-level abstract thinking. Memorization does not. In...
View ArticleThe Weekly Summary
February 10th – February 17th In the general news, the U.S. hockey team defeated the Russians at the Olympics. In the U.S., Comcast plans to acquire Time Warner cable for more than $40 Billion, as the...
View ArticlePaul Gigot’s Op-Ed section disgraces the Wall Street Journal, yet again
February 21, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD On February 20th, Paul Gigot, the editor in charge of gatekeeping the letters published in the prestigious Wall Street Journal, allowed two men to criticize...
View ArticleTenets of the Palo Alto business model
February 24, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD With so many young kids becoming billionaires overnight in Silicon Valley, you might be thinking how you too can cash in. The chances are that you will fail,...
View ArticleBook Review: Dragnet Nation by Julia Angwin
March 2, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Author of Dragnet Nation, Julia Angwin, won her Pulitzer Prize while working for the Wall Street Journal. She is now is an investigative reporter for ProPublica....
View ArticleAtul Gawande’s surgical checklist fails in real world study
March 15, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD In 2009, Atul Gawande, MD, MPH and his large international team published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) an observational study that showed a...
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