Len Zwelling

Fake Chinese Data In Drug Trials: Let’s Hope It’s Just In China By Leonard Zwelling          A concerned reader sent me this report from Doximity: http://news.doximity.com/entries/4946944?authenticated=false          It describes widespread fraud and data fabrication in the Chinese system of drug approval and regulation as it pertains to Western medicines. The malfeasance may be even worse

On ObamaCare, Bill Is Right By Leonard Zwelling          In every way, ObamaCare is crazy.          What was the goal of the ACA?          Essentially, it preserved the private health insurance markets, the dominance of the large pharmaceutical companies and the largest providers of health care like large hospital groups. Sure, it gained health insurance

Finally, The DePinho Game Plan By Leonard Zwelling          For the past five years, I have been trying to figure out what the DePinho strategy for MD Anderson was or is.          I think the LeMaistre plan was basically that of a traditional academic cancer center using the revenues from patient care to sustain a

Abraham, Hillary and Don By Leonard Zwelling          The 1968 hit song Abraham, Martin and John by Dion extolled the virtues of the 16th President, along with the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. “They freed a lot of people, but it seems the good they die young…”          At the debate on Sunday,

Why Is THIS Enough? NOW They Want Trump To Pull Out! By Leonard Zwelling          A friend just emailed incredulous that the latest revelatory video of Donald Trump speaking like a 16-year old locker room gym rat about a woman is the straw that seems to have broken the back of the rest of the

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,

Why Hillary? By Leonard Zwelling          I readily admit to being extremely ambivalent about voting for President this year. I find both major candidates loaded with flaws and that the choice this year is among the worst ever. But, given that adults are supposed to vote and given that these two are the choices spit