Marc Siegel

1 month ago | statnews.com | Marc Siegel

I don’t know Casey Means at all, but I have met and interviewed the previous two surgeon generals, Vivek Murthy and Jerome Adams, on several occasions. I found both doctors to be well suited to be the U.S. surgeon general of their times. The role of surgeon general is to oversee the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps but also to function as a main communicator of health information to the American public.

1 month ago | foxnews.com | Marc Siegel

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1 month ago | thehill.com | Alexander J. Travis |Marc Siegel

If there was one thing we learned from COVID, it was the need for rapid, accurate, point-of-care testing to help contain the virus before it had spread silently to many others. It was years before we had these effective tools and could properly apply them in real time to real patients. Today, the same problem exists in animals for H5N1 bird flu, where the virus spreads through flocks before we know that even a single bird is infected.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Marc Siegel |Melissa Rudy

Five years after the worldwide hyperfocus on COVID-19 began, some are concerned about the next pandemic — whether it could be caused by influenza, bird flu or another pathogen. Too easily overlooked are non-influenza, non-COVID viruses and bacteria that are burgeoning and spreading unchecked — both in the U.S. and around the world. While they may not cause the next pandemic, they do cause a lot of illness and death.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Marc Siegel

Neurosurgeons at Seattle Grace Hospital are conducting a clinical trial of a new treatment for patients with “rapidly progressive Alzheimer’s disease.” Some of the patients in the trial are randomly assigned to receive the experimental drug and others are given a placebo. The patients don’t know which group they are in, but the doctors find out when they unseal an envelope in the operating room just before inserting the syringe into the patient’s brain.