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The CDC director just got COVID. She got the new bivalent booster a month ago.
It's time to be honest about bad evidence and bad leadership
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Vinay Prasad
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Foreign-trained vs US-trained doctors
A public health leader recently cited a 2017 BMJ study comparing quality of care between US and foreign-trained doctors. The flaws in the study offer…
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John Mandrola
80
The ENTIRE healthcare system is broken, not just health insurance companies. It is NOT HEROIC to assassinate insurance CEOs
The assassin is an "asshole that is going to die in prison," as Fetterman says
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Vinay Prasad
188
Before We Push the New Omicron Vaccine, Let’s See The Data
The White House is pushing Americans hard to take a novel Covid vaccine before the studies are complete.
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Sensible Medicine endorses Vinay Prasad for Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the US FDA
Vinay Prasad is leaving Sensible Medicine to take a senior role at the the US FDA.
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John Mandrola
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Adam Cifu, MD
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Legitimizing irrational anxiety is bad medicine
Healthy middle age people carrying CO2 monitors need frank advice to stop
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Vinay Prasad
193
Eulogy versus Resume Virtues
When a doctor dies, do we do right by him?
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Vinay Prasad
85
Coming Out Against the Healthy Lifestyle
OK, the title is kind of click bait.
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Adam Cifu, MD
187
Blood, shit, piss and pus
What we touch in the hospital and who we are
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Vinay Prasad
126
Sacrificing children’s health in the name of Health
A look at the US’s Counterproductive Covid Policies and why Scandinavia did Better
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Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
87
John Ioannidis: The Pandemic as of 7/28/2022
Interview with Vinay Prasad, MD MPH
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Vinay Prasad
155
Why We Question the Safety Profile of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
Robert M Kaplan and Sander Greenland
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Robert M Kaplan
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