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Hospital acquired infections (HAI) are a frequent and costly problem.

I was at a meeting with an agriculture executive and he handed me a print-off from the Whole Foods website, their Organic landing page. A few things were highlighted.

The United States is a great place to get generic drugs.

A year ago, Robert De Niro pulled the highly controversial anti-vaccine movie ‘VAXXED: From Cover Up To Controversy’ from the Tribeca film festival held in NYC.

Your education dollars at work

In a contest of charlatans, David Avocado Wolfe is taking a very strong lead - Usain Bolt style - due to both the bizarre nature of his ideas and the sheer number of subjects that he comments on - from food to physics. 

Saturday Night Live (SNL) and comedy, in general, walks a fine line between finding the humor in the absurdities of life and crossing a boundary of mocking situations that perpetuate unfortunate stigmas. 

I trained and worked as a surgeon for 30 years in the tri-state area, within an hour of New York City, so I thought I was fairly sophisticated about healthcare.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina released two videos on his Twitter account correcting prior seemingly false reports about the consequences of his collapse at a race in Washington, DC.

It is a requirement of the State of New York that every prescriber of medications takes a 3-hour course on opioid prescription and patient management.