Plenary Session

Back to basics as I break down a trial

Transcribed - Published: 20 February 2025

I discuss the recent reduction in indirect funds for NIH grants and lay out why the NIH is a broken funding system.

Transcribed - Published: 19 February 2025

I discuss the intense media coverage of Trump and the recent decision to cap indirect costs of NIH grants at 15%.

Transcribed - Published: 19 February 2025

I discuss RFK Jr.'s confirmation as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services; recent layoffs at the CDC and NIH; and some comments by Harold Varmus in criticism of Jay Bhattacharya.

Transcribed - Published: 19 February 2025

I'm talking about USAID and Elon's team of six engineers; the Bobby Kennedy Jr hearings, particularly concerning Samoa; MMR vaccines; DEI; and NIH funding complaints.

Transcribed - Published: 19 February 2025

I discuss the CIA admitting that COVID was a lab leak; Fauci's pardon; NIH meetings; RFK Jr's Senate confirmation hearing; and more.

Transcribed - Published: 19 February 2025

I discuss Trump's big health care changes: NIH study sections, the MMWR gag order, the US withdrawal from WHO, and more!

Transcribed - Published: 1 February 2025

The entire healthcare system is broken, it's not just health insurance companies.

Transcribed - Published: 27 January 2025

Is alcohol healthy for you? I break down everything you need to know about beer, wine, and spirits.

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

Our 2 hour critical appraisal and ASH review. SO many guest stars

Transcribed - Published: 11 December 2024

Lecture on systematic review, given by Vinay Prasad MD MPH to students in the UCSF Training in Clinical Research Program, November 2024.

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2024

Timothee Olivier and I discuss the top ESMO 2024 abstracts!

Transcribed - Published: 3 November 2024

AI in healthcare - my latest keynote address

Transcribed - Published: 28 October 2024

"Masking Mistakes: Lessons from the Science, Policy, and Coverage of COVID-19", the 2024 Brian Shields Lecture on Institutional Ethics which took place on Monday, October 7, 2024 for the Emory Center for Ethics. A conversation with Carlos Del Rio, MD and Vinay Prasad, MD MPH with moderation by Gerard Vong, DPhil, Director of the MA in Bioethics program.

Transcribed - Published: 16 October 2024

Screening/ Drug efficacy/ Sotorasib/ Adaura and more

Transcribed - Published: 31 August 2024

My UCSF lecture on driver mutation lung cancer

Transcribed - Published: 2 August 2024

We break down the best studies from ASCO

Transcribed - Published: 23 June 2024

Critical Appraisal - My 2 hour ASCO lecture - Day 2 version by Plenary Session

Transcribed - Published: 5 June 2024

What you need to know in advance of ASCO

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2024

Should trials have carbon footprint as an endpoint?

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2024

My grand rounds; Beta blockers post MI Single center vs multicenter RCT Masks Boosters and more

Transcribed - Published: 17 May 2024

I crossover SM podcast; Harvard med students video, Justice curriculum, Masking half the year

Transcribed - Published: 10 May 2024

Patient advocates, Pharma funding, and is MRD a suitable endpoint

Transcribed - Published: 17 April 2024

5 reasons that is a bad idea

Transcribed - Published: 12 April 2024

Another flawed quality metric. Reviewing the NEJM paper "Beta-Blockers After Myocardial Infarction and Preserved Ejection Fraction".

Transcribed - Published: 9 April 2024

They are shitty

Transcribed - Published: 27 March 2024

Another flawed study Keynote 564. Pembro in adjuvant RCC

Transcribed - Published: 1 February 2024

What happens when doctors run unethical studies?

Transcribed - Published: 27 January 2024

Does car T cause secondary AML? We discuss

Transcribed - Published: 28 December 2023

We talk about 2023 cancer trials

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2023

Goodman and I discuss ash updates. My myeloma talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAz84yCnfjQ

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2023

Subscribe to Sensible Med Pod; This is x over Post partum depression, orbita 2 and physics vs medicine

Transcribed - Published: 17 December 2023

My Lecture in Curacao 4/4 Vaccines, Masks, Mandates, Lockdowns, School closure Other lectures to come

Transcribed - Published: 26 November 2023

Entresto, Lung Transplants, How to Keep Up with Literature - Lecture to Trainees in Curacao

Transcribed - Published: 24 November 2023

This is a lecture I gave on November 5, 2023, to pre-medicine undergraduate students at University of California Berkeley.

Transcribed - Published: 11 November 2023

Radiation oncology in GI malignancy (endpoints and stratification) in the JCO

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2023

Prasad is back in Hawaii to give another keynote (good thing they cancelled Dallas not Honolulu). I discuss coffee and colon cancer, and censoring, and Lu177 PSMA

Transcribed - Published: 23 October 2023

This is a lecture I gave on ethics and institutional review boards in Denmark in September 2023. It is the last of the three lectures I gave.

Transcribed - Published: 19 October 2023

Mandrola, Prasad and Cifu are back to discuss the latest drama

Transcribed - Published: 16 October 2023

This is a lecture I gave on the state of immunotherapy in oncology at the Immunotherapy Symposium In Denmark in September 2023. It is the second of three lectures I gave.

Transcribed - Published: 9 October 2023

The first of the three lectures I gave in Denmark in September 2023 was on the medical evidence behind decision-making by health technology assessment groups.

Transcribed - Published: 4 October 2023

This is the live recording of a talk given on the great and crazy things we do in medicine, from cancer drugs to boosters and more.

Transcribed - Published: 20 September 2023

Timothee is back to discuss Malignant and Solutions

Transcribed - Published: 12 September 2023

A far reaching discussion btw Mandrola and Prasad on RCTs, Coumadin, ECMO and RCTs for covid shots

Transcribed - Published: 11 September 2023

Simultaneously released on Sensible Medicine. Time to subscribe to Sensible Medicine substack and podcast.

Transcribed - Published: 23 August 2023

Placebo/ Journal Errors/ Cancer Screening w/ Mandrola - SM crossover

Transcribed - Published: 10 July 2023

A sensible medicine crossover episode Follow the sensible medicine podcast feed for more of these discussions

Transcribed - Published: 28 June 2023

T. Olivier from Geneva is back. A fan favorite guest. We discuss 3 recent papers.

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2023

Researchers were too busy counting dead bodies to give the control arm appropriate therapy when their cancer recurred. Disgusting conduct. I break down ADAURA

Transcribed - Published: 8 June 2023

Mike Putman, Todd C. Lee, John Mandrola and I debate the recent JAMA paper on RCT Duplicate. This is a spirited round table discussion on the limitations of observational data. If you are reading this, leave a comment as a review!

Transcribed - Published: 17 May 2023