Eric Topol

A quick update on some important new data

What we’re learning from two new, large-population prospective assessments.

We need to ramp up our game if we are going to be able to use our immune system to quash a cancer. Fortunately, we have abundant and ever-growing capabilities for doing just that.

The final Medicine and the Machine podcast guest, physician and author Gavin Francis, shares his approach to keeping his occupation rewarding and satisfying.

He’s alive thanks to a repurposed drug. Now his dream is to find cures for millions of people from among drugs we already have.

Dr Eric Topol discusses the present and future of AI in medicine with historian and futurist Dr Adam Rodman.

ChatGPT and large language models offer physicians the chance to do what they went to medical school for: connect with patients and help them regain their health.

Giving Paxlovid to an older adult with COVID is a clinical no-brainer. So why is there so much Paxlovid prescribing phobia?

Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese chat with the UK’s professor Hannah Fry about taking risks and asking the right questions.

Two-way masking is pretty effective, but it’s not sustainable. Environmental engineer and viral transmission expert Dr Linsey Marr reveals how we can fight COVID by tackling our contaminated air.

I’m not using the term breakthrough lightly.

Dr Trish Greenhalgh explains how we miss the boat when we discount real-world evidence in favor of randomized trial evidence.

Eric Topol, MD, discusses how people should be thinking about long COVID when they consider their COVID risk.

Stephen Thrasher discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide.

Virologist Jeremy Kamil shares his relatively upbeat perspective on the viral threats we face today.

Another COVID-19 variant is inevitable because we aren’t doing anything to stop it, says UK operational researcher Christina Pagel.

An AI model accurately predicts a person’s race from a chest radiograph with stunning accuracy. Here’s why it matters, and how it poses research questions about bias in medicine.

Eric Topol speaks with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis about harnessing the potential of AI in health and medicine.

Why we should be shifting into high gear on treatments for long COVID and a pan-beta-coronavirus vaccine.

Former NIMH Director Tom Insel explains how the medical model has failed the field of psychiatry.