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Longevity Lecture series Introduction and Lecture 1 by Plenary Session

Back to basics as I break down a trial

I discuss RFK Jr.'s confirmation as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services; recent layoffs at the CDC and NIH; and some comments by Harold Varmus in criticism of Jay Bhattacharya.

I discuss the recent reduction in indirect funds for NIH grants and lay out why the NIH is a broken funding system.

I discuss the intense media coverage of Trump and the recent decision to cap indirect costs of NIH grants at 15%.

I discuss the CIA admitting that COVID was a lab leak; Fauci's pardon; NIH meetings; RFK Jr's Senate confirmation hearing; and more.

I'm talking about USAID and Elon's team of six engineers; the Bobby Kennedy Jr hearings, particularly concerning Samoa; MMR vaccines; DEI; and NIH funding complaints.

I discuss Trump's big health care changes: NIH study sections, the MMWR gag order, the US withdrawal from WHO, and more!

The entire healthcare system is broken, it's not just health insurance companies.

Is alcohol healthy for you? I break down everything you need to know about beer, wine, and spirits.

Our 2 hour critical appraisal and ASH review. SO many guest stars

Lecture on systematic review, given by Vinay Prasad MD MPH to students in the UCSF Training in Clinical Research Program, November 2024.

Timothee Olivier and I discuss the top ESMO 2024 abstracts!

AI in healthcare - my latest keynote address

"Masking Mistakes: Lessons from the Science, Policy, and Coverage of COVID-19", the 2024 Brian Shields Lecture on Institutional Ethics which took place on Monday, October 7, 2024 for the Emory Center for Ethics. A conversation with Carlos Del Rio, MD and Vinay Prasad, MD MPH with moderation by Gerard Vong, DPhil, Director of the MA in Bioethics program.

Screening/ Drug efficacy/ Sotorasib/ Adaura and more

My UCSF lecture on driver mutation lung cancer

We break down the best studies from ASCO

Critical Appraisal - My 2 hour ASCO lecture - Day 2 version by Plenary Session

What you need to know in advance of ASCO

Should trials have carbon footprint as an endpoint?

My grand rounds; Beta blockers post MI Single center vs multicenter RCT Masks Boosters and more

I crossover SM podcast; Harvard med students video, Justice curriculum, Masking half the year

Patient advocates, Pharma funding, and is MRD a suitable endpoint

5 reasons that is a bad idea

Another flawed quality metric. Reviewing the NEJM paper "Beta-Blockers After Myocardial Infarction and Preserved Ejection Fraction".

They are shitty

Another flawed study Keynote 564. Pembro in adjuvant RCC

What happens when doctors run unethical studies?

Does car T cause secondary AML? We discuss

We talk about 2023 cancer trials

Goodman and I discuss ash updates. My myeloma talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAz84yCnfjQ

Subscribe to Sensible Med Pod; This is x over Post partum depression, orbita 2 and physics vs medicine

My Lecture in Curacao 4/4 Vaccines, Masks, Mandates, Lockdowns, School closure Other lectures to come

Entresto, Lung Transplants, How to Keep Up with Literature - Lecture to Trainees in Curacao

This is a lecture I gave on November 5, 2023, to pre-medicine undergraduate students at University of California Berkeley.

Radiation oncology in GI malignancy (endpoints and stratification) in the JCO

Prasad is back in Hawaii to give another keynote (good thing they cancelled Dallas not Honolulu). I discuss coffee and colon cancer, and censoring, and Lu177 PSMA

This is a lecture I gave on ethics and institutional review boards in Denmark in September 2023. It is the last of the three lectures I gave.

Mandrola, Prasad and Cifu are back to discuss the latest drama

This is a lecture I gave on the state of immunotherapy in oncology at the Immunotherapy Symposium In Denmark in September 2023. It is the second of three lectures I gave.

The first of the three lectures I gave in Denmark in September 2023 was on the medical evidence behind decision-making by health technology assessment groups.

This is the live recording of a talk given on the great and crazy things we do in medicine, from cancer drugs to boosters and more.

Timothee is back to discuss Malignant and Solutions

A far reaching discussion btw Mandrola and Prasad on RCTs, Coumadin, ECMO and RCTs for covid shots

Simultaneously released on Sensible Medicine. Time to subscribe to Sensible Medicine substack and podcast.

Placebo/ Journal Errors/ Cancer Screening w/ Mandrola - SM crossover

A sensible medicine crossover episode Follow the sensible medicine podcast feed for more of these discussions

T. Olivier from Geneva is back. A fan favorite guest. We discuss 3 recent papers.

Researchers were too busy counting dead bodies to give the control arm appropriate therapy when their cancer recurred. Disgusting conduct. I break down ADAURA