WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments/ Science mag

The website is merylnassmd.com.  While it will still undergo some tweaks (and your comments will help me improve it) my goal was twofold: 1.  To get out of the clutches of the Goog universe 2.  To make my writing easier for readers to access, by indexing posts, having a Contents bar, and being able to…

There is so much written that is dead wrong about this year’s flu vaccine,  another post is needed.  Here are some facts: 1.  This year’s flu vaccine is the same as last year’s vaccine.  If you are healthy and got the vaccine last year, you probably still have antibodies against all 3 strains. 2.  The…

You probably recall that nearly a year ago an FDA advisory committee voted almost unanimously not to license the new drug Aduhelm for Alzheimer’s dementia.  Then FDA, with Janet Woodcock at its helm, gave the drug a license anyway. The data showed the drug was not helpful and probably harmful.  Three members of the committee…

In the last post, I explained that CDC was the source of the plan to investigate rates of healthcare worker flu vaccinations.  CDC collaborates with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to use staff (and patient) flu vaccination rates to calculate hospital “quality” — and the “quality” number determines up to 4% of acute…

There was a lot of interest in my discussion of the benefit of knowing the ingredients in vaccines.  There was further interest in what these ingredients are.  I have therefore annotated a CDC-derived ingredient list for vaccines by highlighting those ingredients derived from animals or humans, and circling in red those ingredients obtained from a…

When I do an interview I never have any sense of how it went.  I am so focused on trying to get the right words out that I don’t even remember what I talked about when I am done.   But I just listened to this and I think I did a good job explaining both…