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My medical oath requires no government oversight
If President Obama thinks he's smarting from a rough August, he should try being a doctor. After all, we've taken quite a few shots in this health...
USA TODAY, 09/14/09 by Marc Siegel · More from publication -
Keep swine flu outbreak in perspective
As the number of documented U.S. cases of the new strain of swine flu climbed toward 300, and the World Health Organization got ready to raise the...
USA TODAY, 05/06/09 by Marc Siegel · More from publication -
Don't let the economy kill you
NEW YORK -- Downtown Hospital is just a block from Wall Street. Walking through its beefed up emergency room recently, I came upon Terry Jung, the...
USA TODAY, 10/14/08 by Marc Siegel · More from publication -
Antidote
Diabetes is a tough disease to treat. Recently, to the relief of those of us who treat it, more and more effective medications have become...
Medical Marketing and Media, 10/01/08 by Siegel, Marc · More from publication -
Antidote
My usual purpose in Antidote is to champion a drug that has been unfairly maligned. This month I want to celebrate a discovery that is too easily...
Medical Marketing and Media, 09/01/08 by Siegel, Marc · More from publication -
Antidote
Regular readers of this column know that one of my major themes is to defend lifesaving effective drugs that are wrongly targeted in the media....
Medical Marketing and Media, 08/01/08 by Siegel, Marc · More from publication -
Antidote
I promise you that heparin is a perfectly good drug, though if you have been reading the newspapers lately, you wouldn't think so. Several accounts...
Medical Marketing and Media, 06/01/08 by Siegel, Marc · More from publication -
Antidote
I have an expression that I like to use when describing a drug's fall from grace-I call it going from panacea to panic. This description suits the...
Medical Marketing and Media, 04/01/08 by Siegel, Marc · More from publication -
Antidote
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health released findings of the ACCORD study which appeared to show that driving blood sugar to low...
Medical Marketing and Media, 03/01/08 by Siegel, Marc · More from publication -
Antidote
Now that we are in a presidential election year, much attention has been directed toward the question of how to extend healthcare to more people....
Medical Marketing and Media, 02/01/08 by Siegel, Marc · More from publication
