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My Upcoming Homeric Journey

Two weeks from now, my wife and I will begin a new chapter in our lives. For two 6-week periods a year, I will be a digital nomad, working from a sailboat in the Mederteranian Sea. How did we get here and what does that mean? Let’s dig in. 4 am Days I grew up…read more

What Does a Graph of Medical Data Really Say?

I love the Mark Twain quote, “Lies, damn lies, and statistics.” That’s because, in medicine, stats and how data is presented can be used in all sorts of ways. Today we’ll look at some data on the CDC website as an example. My Favorite Data Hustle Cholesterol-lowering drugs have very poor results in reducing heart…read more

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Doctors read studies all the time. Based on the study results, they either adopt a new treatment or stop using an old one. Or at least that’s how evidence-based medicine is supposed to work. However, orthopedic hip surgeons just published a really nice article on some new metrics that look at the robustness of clinical…read more

Happy Mother’s Day!

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? Mahatma Gandhi Our mothers will always have a special place in our hearts because they shape who and what we are. When I was young, I went through several dreams of careers, all of them in science. I never wanted…read more

Marrow Cellution: Playing Games with Bone Marrow Data in New Jersey

Since Regenexx has the largest dedicated interventional orthobiologics network that uses highly trained physician subspecialists, there isn’t a week that goes by that someone wants to take a potshot at the big guys. I ignore most of these, but every once in a while, I engage that provider in order to educate my readers. This…read more

Standing with Ukraine

I wake up every morning and probably like many people, I check the news to see if Ukraine is still standing. At night, when I wake up and try to get back to sleep, I’m thinking about how all of our military aide packages may just be too little too late. Every interview of every…read more

Did Lockdowns Work? Graphs that Will Astound You

Science as a discipline only works when we can learn from our mistakes and correct them. Hence, you can expect that now that the dust is beginning to clear from the Omicron wave of COVID that researchers will be reexamining all of our pandemic data and assumptions. As I have reported before, you can expect…read more

Are Our COVID Death Numbers Wildly Inflated?

This has been such a big week for COVID news so I felt obliged to give my readers an update. The big news is on the accuracy of the hospitalization number used to drive all of the models and a big surprise around death reports. Let’s dig in. The Hospitalization Debacle I’ve already blogged on…read more