October 2016

EXTRA Dr. Kantarjian’s Op-Ed on the ACA and My Letter to the Editor in Response http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Kantarjian-ACA-isn-t-perfect-but-let-s-fix-it-9792117.php To the Editor: Regarding “The ACA’s future: Tweak it, or scrap it? (Page A17, Thursday), with all due respect to Dr. Hagop M. Kantarjian (“Point: Million now insured because of Obamacare; fix it, don’t kill it”), it will take […]

Personalized Cancer Treatments and The Microbiome: If Tumor DNA Sequencing Could Only Solve The Problem, But It Can’t By Leonard Zwelling          I’m in the middle of a fascinating new book called I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong. It’s about the microbiome, the planet’s worth of bacterial and viral species that live on and in

The Taxes Matter; The Emails Matter; Your Vote Matters; and The VP Debate Matters (A Little) By Leonard Zwelling          While Donald Trump is making fun of Mrs. Clinton’s stamina and marriage, he ought to be doing a little damage control after the NY Times published three pages of his 1995 tax return that showed

Why Does Executive Pay Go Up When Financial Performance Goes Down? By Leonard Zwelling       As many readers know, I am a member of the Physicians for a National Health Program, PNHP. PNHP is the organization for the single payer docs. To make a long story short, we basically believe that if a single payer,