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Marc Siegel, MD July 01, 2008

Chantix is taking a real beating this month.
 

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Marc Siegel, MD June 01, 2008

I promise you that heparin is a perfectly good drug, though if you have been reading the newspapers lately, you wouldn't think so.
 

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Marc Siegel, MD May 01, 2008

Even if I had another topic planned, how could I not write this month about Zetia?
 

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Marc Siegel, MD April 01, 2008

I have an expression that I like to use when describing a drug's fall from grace—I call it going from panacea to panic.
 

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Marc Siegel, MD March 01, 2008

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health released findings of the ACCORD study which appeared to show that driving blood sugar to low levels in diabetics leads to an increased rate of dying.
 

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Marc Siegel, MD February 01, 2008

Now that we are in a presidential election year, much attention has been directed toward the question of how to extend healthcare to more people.
 

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Marc Siegel, MD January 01, 2008

In past columns I have defended the commonly used sleeping pill Ambien.
 

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Marc Siegel, MD December 01, 2007

We all like a good mystery, so we tend to overreact and over-personalize infectious threats that are truly remote.
 

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Marc Siegel, MD November 01, 2007

I think it's time I devoted a column to a phenomenon known as forced substitution.
 

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Marc Siegel, MD October 01, 2007

I never believed it was entirely fair that Eli Lilly was the target of vicious attacks regarding its anti-psychotic drug, Zyprexa.