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May 2023
Theranos founder reports to prison, fulfilling the destiny of a course set two decades ago.
If you Google “Where is Elizabeth Holmes?” here’s what you get: “She is now an inmate at the all-female minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas…
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Jeremy Faust, MD
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Data Snapshot: Disability claims to Social Security Administration hold steady during pandemic.
Covid-19 has caused an incredibly high number of missed days of work due to sick leave. Fortunately, when the pandemic hit, many employers were able to…
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FDA fully approves Paxlovid. Now we can learn how well it really works.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the FDA used its authority to allow new medications and vaccines to reach the public, without its usual lengthy approval…
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Jeremy Faust, MD
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Can Survivor teach us something about our health and weight loss?
For reasons I can’t entirely explain, I love the CBS show Survivor. I’m somewhere between a fan and a super-fan. (Super-fans have knowledge that I can’t…
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Jeremy Faust, MD
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Ten (Years) For Fighting. The Deadly Toll of Fighting in Ice Hockey: An Analysis of Premature Mortality Among NHL Players.
When I first discovered NHL ice hockey as a teenager, I thought the fighting was kind of cool. These goons were willing to beat each other up and risk…
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Jeremy Faust, MD
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Voices: Dr. Atul Gawande on USAID spending, Covid-19 Aftermath, and the Need for the US to Lead in Global Health.
Part 3 of the three-part series.
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Jeremy Faust, MD
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WHO recommends next Covid booster be monovalent, tailored to the Omicron XBB.1 lineage.
The WHO announced this Thursday that the next Covid-19 booster should be targeted to the Omicron variant that is currently circulating, namely the…
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Jeremy Faust, MD
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Live Q&A *today* with Dr. Amanda Calhoun and Dr. Jessi Gold, 2pm ET on Instagram.
Hi all! May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Today (Thursday, May 18th, 2023), I’ll be going live on Instagram to discuss adolescent mental health with…
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Study Reveals 1.63 Million Early Deaths in US Black Population Over Two Decades.
As you may know, over the last three years, I’ve been studying excess mortality in order to quantify the magnitude of the Covid-19 pandemic. (Excess…
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Jeremy Faust, MD
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The end of the public health emergency...on paper.
Yesterday, May 11, 2023, was the final day of the Covid-19 public health emergency (PHE) in the United States. The WHO also recently declared the…
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Jeremy Faust, MD
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Voices: Dr. Atul Gawande on maintaining humanism in a world of AI and checklists.
Part 2 of a 3-part series.
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