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Dr. Marc Siegel

Dr. Marc Siegel is a practicing internist and an associate professor of medicine and a fellow in the Master Scholars Society at New York University School of Medicine. He is a weekly columnist for the New York Daily News, a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and The Nation. He is a member of the board of contributors at USA Today. He appears frequently on CNN, the Fox News Channel, and the NBC Today Show. He is the author of False Alarm: the Truth About the Epidemic of Fear and most recently, Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know about the Next Pandemic (Wiley).

Currently

  • Trauma in New Orleans

    August 23, 2007 Subscribe

    The city lacks the resources to address its residents' urgent mental health needs.

2006

  • The False Bird Flu Scare

    May 18, 2006

    The United States has fueled a worldwide overreaction to the threat of a bird flu pandemic, putting AIDS, malaria, malnutrition and other crucial global health programs at risk.

  • Unequipped to Cure

    January 13, 2006

    Vaccine production in the United States is in an alarming condition--with drug-makers wedded to outmoded techniques and government more focused on terror than pandemics.

2005

  • New Medicare Benefit Helps Only Drug Companies

    November 16, 2005

    Why are so few elderly people signing up for the new Medicare drug benefit? It's cumbersome, costly and totally confusing.

  • Scare Scenario

    October 24, 2005

    It has all the makings of a horror flick, but panic over a possible bird flu pandemic is following a time-honored script: sensational media reports, profit-hungry drug manufacturers and politicians eager to capitalize on fears.

  • Darwin and God

    October 4, 2005 Subscribe

    Darwin's discoveries about evolution never argued against the existence of God. And the theory of "intelligent design" is a dangerous attempt to undermine science and justify a literal reading of the Bible.

  • Fear Itself

    September 20, 2005

    Some people are scaring themselves about the wrong things in ways that are doing terrorists' work for them. Here's one physician's prescription for bringing irrational fears under control.

  • Debating the Causes of Autism

    August 3, 2005

    Exchanges on mercury, autism and alternative medicine.

  • More on Mercury

    June 3, 2005

    Exchanges on mercury, ephedra and TTP.

  • Mercury in Vaccines, Obesity & the 'Statin Revolution'

    April 1, 2005

    Exchanges on health and the pharmacuetical industry.

  • The Free Market and Vaccines, Part 2

    February 2, 2005

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2001

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