Sitemap - 2026 - Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts

Jason Arday in the New England Journal/ Nicholas Cofras’ Suspension letter

10 thoughts about Jason Arday, Cambridge, Nathan Cofnas, and the decline of Universities.

Should folks older than 75 take a statin?

JAMA essay argues that AI will be better than docs; Docs upset; What’s the reality?

It would have worked, If only. 'If only' medicine

A cluster randomized trial of HEPA filters is strikingly negative

How much NIH funding is waste?

Medical ethics and IRB committees make two errors: they block useful research, they permit useless research

Fake numbers: closing USAID cost 14 million lives, vaccines saved 2 million

Five red flags cancer patients should look out for

Former Covid Czar says lab leak, and who is responsible for decisions politicians or scientist

Who is accountable: political leaders or the scientists who advise them?

White House Covid Czar Says He thinks it was Lab Leak

Anthony Fauci

Why Fauci Struck a Nerve - and 5 more diary updates

6 lessons from Anthony Fauci's diary

What sport is safe enough for your kids to play?

The Shingles vaccine DOES NOT reduce dementia in England

The wealthy and charitable family

Coffee and the Heart - The new guidelines is based on very low level evidence (with 1 exception)

Is health care a human right?

Clarifying a few misconceptions about lung cancer screening

The Future of Medicine

The New York Times Contradicts itself on Cancer Screening

Extreme public health advice

When a famous person dies, doctors cannot help themselves: Get a CAC scan, Echo, BP check, eat fatty fish, and more

How much fraud is there in academic medicine?

Should you take an SSRI for 40+ years?

The war against compounding pharmacies selling obesity medications

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The war between OpenAI, Gemini, ChatGPT, for the most accurate responses, and the deeper question about the meaning of medicine

Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Jose Baselga

Time to rename target trials, 'observational studies'

AI will beat your doctor but a NYTimes story and NatMed paper ain't it

Midjourney's whole body ultrasound

Shingles vaccine(s) and dementia: the only medical intervention to work faster than Tums

A new JAMA IM paper on covid shots contains a preposterous result that invalidates the entire paper

OHSU's surgeon allegedly sews in mitral valve upside down in 13 year old girl, hospital pushes to harvest girl's organs, parents transfer to Seattle, and truth is revealed

DOJ says UC Davis is violating the law and giving racial preferences in defiance of the Supreme Court

A new paper compares Gemini with Open evidence with ChatGPT: the winner is....

Alcohol study started by Biden, buried by Trump, is finally published

Do GLP-1 drugs reduce the risk of cancer?

Which AI will Medical Doctors Use?

Progress in oncology: a tale of two graphs and two diseases

Daraxonrasib in pancreas cancer.

Paxlovid was a 10.6 billion dollar taxpayer funded mistake

Are "healthy people" an endangered species?

"There is so much waste in government spending" - Jeff Bezos

Sleep science

Longevity Science - A multi-part series