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Repairing Heart Valves Without Open Surgery – A Significant Advance

Continuing last week’s discussion of new devices for treating heart diseases, a…

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Innovative Medical Devices Save Lives of Heart Patients But Often at a High Cost

EXCLUSIVE POST - Innovation in medical devices has been profound in recent…

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What Really Needs To Be Done About the Critical Shortages of Cancer Drugs

The following is an Op Ed written by myself and colleague Dr…

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Wireless Devices Will Dramatically Change How Medicine Is Practiced

I interviewed about 150 medical leaders just a few years ago for…

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Time to Reevaluate – When to Use a New Technology vs. When to Die with Dignity

  American medicine overuses its technologies and innovation triumphs and way underutilizes…

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We Are Ruining Our Children’s Future Health

Our children (and grandchildren) are the future and we are responsible for…

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Frailty – Common In Elderly, But Is It Preventable?

Americans are aging – fast. And that means more chronic illnesses like…

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Vaccines in the Pipeline and Vaccine Economics

EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE - The last three of these posts touched on a…

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Vaccines in the Developing World

     When we think of vaccines we need to divide the…

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Reasonable Goals for Health Insurance Coverage and Defining Medical Necessity

Health care should be a right but it needs to be paired…

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