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Category: Steve’s Blog
ONE PAGE BABY MANUAL
This is the original study where all the “hoopla,” if I may use “salty” language, arose. Though the title is rather nondescript, the result is promising. I’ll annotate this in the body of the text. It’s a fascinating result, but curb your enthusiasm for now, there’s a lot yet to do. PD-1 Blockade in Mismatch […]
PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Mark Normand
Brilliant internationally known comic Mark Normand enters the Exam Room (yecch, that title) to discuss cock pills, inbreeding, insomnia, and more! Exclusively and AD FREE on patreon.com/weirdmedicine!
Abigail Zuger, MD Both agents are clinically effective, but uncertainties still attend their use. At the end of December 2021, two novel oral antiviral agents received FDA emergency use authorization for outpatient use in mild-to-moderate COVID-19. Although both agents generated substantial premarketing enthusiasm, they come to market with lingering uncertainties. Nirmatrelvir (Paxlovid, Pfizer) is a […]
Covid Data Sites
Here are good sources of covid-19 data. This site, Epiforecasts, has the Rt (effective reproductive number) which will give you some idea of how fast the virus is spreading in your community. Daniel Stout of StoutLabs has created a site that we have used consistently since the start of the pandemic: covid.stoutlabs.com. Click here for […]
BONUS EPISODE – Metamyther
Dr Steve interviews electronic musician Metamyther. Topics include Moogfest, breaking into electronic music, performance in the age of COVID-19, vaccine timing, and more. Check him out: https://www.metamyther.com/ stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) noom.doctorsteve.com (lose weight, gain you-know-what) Get Every Podcast on a Thumb Drive (all this can be yours!) roadie.doctorsteve.com (The ROBOT guitar and bass tuner! And […]
Amazing Cover of a Classic Song
My friend Don Moore taught me how to play “Nous Sommes du Soliel” on the guitar in college, and introduced me to one of my favorite girlfriends of all time. We lost touch for 40-some years and reconnected at MoogFest a couple of years ago. He and his wife Judy write songs about positivity and […]
I was going to write an article on the one theoretical and potentially catastrophic downside to coronavirus vaccines, Antibody-Dependent Enhancement, when I found this article by Derek Lowe from Science Translational Medicine. It’s better than anything I could have written, so here it is. The good news (and tl;dr): There’s no sign of this happening. […]
In telescope making, one celebrates “first light,” that moment when you visualize a celestial object for the first time through the optics you just created. In synthesizers, we should still probably call it “first light” because…I don’t know, because it sounds cool or something. Anyway, this is the first noodling with my new Moog Subharmonicon. […]