— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today‘s press reporters
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MedPage Today Staff
February 11, 2024
“If we have an atomic war, all I require is a scalpel.”– Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, throughout an FDA advisory committee on vital medical gadgets throughout public health emergency situations.
“Microbes can turn sugar into alcohol in the very same method that grape juice becomes white wine.”– Aaron Schwartz, MD, PhD, of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, on an uncommon case in which a diabetes drug turned a client’s urine into alcohol
“In football, these are little, tiny cars and truck mishaps that the gamers are experiencing as they clash in a lot of cases.”– Timothy McAdams, MD, of Stanford University in California and head doctor for the San Francisco 49ers, on the possible injuries expert football gamers face.
“These are extremely hazardous particles.”– Andrew Kolodny, MD, of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, alerting about an unapproved class of powerful artificial opioids appearing in more overdose deaths throughout the nation.
“Imagine if there were no Zoom, no telework, and the extremely paid, politically effective executives in financing and state-of-the-art were needed to come into the workplace every day.”– David Michaels, PhD, MPH, of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., on the absence of security for vital employees throughout the pandemic
“That research study altered adult checking out rights and truths in pediatrics all over the entire nation,”– Linda Aiken, PhD, REGISTERED NURSE, a nurse researcher and policy professional at the University of Pennsylvania, on an argumentation by the late Claire Fagin, PhD, REGISTERED NURSE, nurse researcher, supporterand among the very first ladies to lead an Ivy League university.
“There is a great chance that if they make the most of these preventive programs, that they will bring out a great outcome.”– E. Neil Schachter, MD, of Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, on cancer danger after stopping smoking cigarettes.
[It] ends up being a resident Listeria like finches in the Galápagos.”– Foodborne health problem lawyer Bill Marler, JD, explaining how the germs stays in a food processing plant