The NIH has turned into a source of welfare for bloated universities

July 18, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD

Many years ago, when I was a second-year surgery resident at NYU, I took time off to conduct research. I design some clinical studies on wounds and was awarded more Read more »

The Weekly Summary

July 6^th - July 12^th

In the general news, the stock market in China continued to fall, losing more than 30% this year. In The U.S., South Carolina voted to remove the confederate flag.

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The newly approved Edwards Lifesciences Sapien 3 aortic valve

July 5, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

We interviewed William Suh, MD of UCLA about the newly approved Edwards Lifesciences Sapien 3 aortic valve. Read more »

The Weekly Summary

June 22^nd - June 28^th

In the general news, the world was terrorized again by radical Islam. In France, factory workers were killed and beheaded, and in Tunisia, 39 tourists on the beach were Read more »

The Weekly Summary

June 15^th - June 21^st

In the general news, Greece, once again, is poised to default on its debt. In the U.S., nine African-Americans were murdered while in church by a crazed white male gunman, Read more »

The Weekly Summary

May 11^th - May 17^th

In the general news, The Vatican recognized the Palestinian state. In the U.S., seven people were killed when an Amtrak train derailed near Philadelphia.

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The Netflix Late Reviewer: BBC’s TV series “Sherlock”

January 24, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD

The BBC has been creating some hits over the last few years and TV viewers clamor to high-quality serial dramas, such as Downton Abbey. A lesser known good series is Sherlock, which is a modern day Read more »

Watchman shot dead

March 10, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD  The Healthcare Channel

PREVAIL, the much anticipated second major trial of the Boston Scientific device called Watchman was a bust. The trial endpoints were changed in midstream of the trial, but it still did not help. The efficacy endpoint was not met this time, contradicting the first major trial, PROTECT, where a small efficacy was found. (Even if the statistical endpoints were met, the primary endpoint was a clinically meaningless composite of stroke, systemic embolization, and cardiovascular caused death.)

The safety of the device has always been the show stopper. Read more »

Fake professor scares pre-med students

Doctor’s rights to online privacy and rights to protect prescribing patterns from being sold

Colin Zick, healthcare policy lawyer at Foley Hoag, LLP, in Boston, discusses the following:

• Do medical doctors have a realistic chance of suing an online site such as Health Grades or Vitals.com to have defamatory patient comments removed?
• The Supreme Court will rule soon on the case against the State of Vermont and the law banning the sale of encrypted prescription pattern data to companies such as IMS. What are the important arguments?
• The new ACA healthcare law implements electronic medical records. Will there be a downside to doctors in the form of extra monitoring and restriction of medical practice by state and federal agencies that can better monitor doctors via EMR’s?

January 4, 2013

As an update, a court upheld the right for a woman t post a negative review of a construction contractor she posted on Yelp.