— Recent work —

A selection of recent work, with a full portfolio below.

Inspire Device for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Mayo Clinic Press
Messing with the Blueprints: Gene therapy has arrived
Mayo Clinic Press
Peyronie’s disease, penile curves and bent carrots
Apple News, Mayo Clinic Press
Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections
Apple News and Mayo Clinic Press
Prostate Cancer: To treat, or not to treat, that is the question
Mayo Clinic Press
The Science of the Short Snooze
Mayo Clinic Press

Full Portfolio

Inspire Device for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Mayo Clinic Press

Messing with the Blueprints: Gene therapy has arrived

Mayo Clinic Press

Peyronie’s disease, penile curves and bent carrots

Apple News, Mayo Clinic Press

Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections

Apple News and Mayo Clinic Press

Prostate Cancer: To treat, or not to treat, that is the question

Mayo Clinic Press

The Science of the Short Snooze

Mayo Clinic Press

Gratitude Takes Practice: How come health care workers aren’t better at it?

KevinMD

Minnesota Live!

Kevin MD Podcast

“A St. Paul physician explains why guys steer clear of the doctor”

Star Tribune

WCCO Drive Time with DeRusha, John Hines

Men Talking Shop and Life Admin

MN Personalized Medicine

KAXE Northern Community Radio

WCCO Drive Time with DeRusha

Kevin MD Man Overboard! chapter excerpt

SIU School of Medicine Alumni Event

The Morning Show, Wisconsin Public Radio

I Dare You Podcast with Darrin Johnson

November 8, 2022

The Common Cold and Flu are Back: Nostalgia in the Worst Way

Columnoscopy, Mayo Clinic Press

Death Knell for Cadavers

KevinMD, MedPage Today

The Hot-headed Skunk Cabbage

MinnPost

Omicron by the Numbers: A stocking stuffer

MinnPost

A New COVID Pill: How and how well does it work?

MinnPost

Long-Haul COVID: MPR News with Angela Davis

Guests Dr. Craig Bowron and Dr. Greg Vanichkachorn

What to know about Long-Haul COVID

MinnPost

For many, an aspirin a day won’t keep the doctor away

MinnPost

Moving Backward (Masking, again) to Move Forward (Controlling Delta surge)

MinnPost

Discussing “Note Bloat” on KevinMD podcast

Guest appearance on KevinMD podcast

Straight Outta Crookston: How a kid from small town Minnesota became an authority on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

MinnPost

Note Bloat: Are Additive Solutions Humans’ Default Mode?

KevinMD

Top Medical Stories of 2020 (Besides COVID)

Vengeance is Sweet, But Who Needs the Extra Calories?

MinnPost

Breaking the Cycle: Changing How We Deal With Addiction

ACP Hospitalist

Why Pandemic Projections are Bewilderingly Different

Star Tribune

COVID-19 “Snuck Up” on No One

MinnPost

Hospitals Run on So Much More Than Doctors and Nurses, So Spread the Love

KevinMD

How Can an Asymptomatic Person Still Spread the Coronavirus?

MinnPost

Hard Realities and Hope. A Conversation with journalist and author Tim Madigan

timmadigan.net

A Checklist in Caring for the Vulnerable during COVID

Religion News Service

More Genie Glasses, Please

Star Tribune

A COVID-19 Primer

MinnPost

How Precision Medicine is Changing Cancer Treatment

NextAvenue.org

Can a CAC prevent a heart attack?

MarketWatch, NextAvenue.org

Udder Confusion: Are Dairy Foods Good For Us?

Journal of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation

Deep Time on the Stone Arch Bridge

Star Tribune

Where to Next with Alzheimer’s Research?

Next Avenue

Ask Your Doctor If TV Drugs Are Right For You

Journal of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation

SpaceX Announces Self-Retrieving Video Capsule Endoscopy

GomerBlog, Earth's Finest Medical News

Schnozology, and Is it Sinus Congestion or a Sinus Infection?

NextAvenue

A guest appearance on “The Wide-Eyed Creative Podcast, with Bob Stromberg”

I don't do housecalls, but podcasts? Sure.

How Do Doctors Think? Heuristics Aren’t Heretical

JMHIF, KevinMD

Health Care Career Advice: Leave the Country ASAP

KevinMD

Fantastical Heart Stent Uses and Where to Find Them

Forbes

More Heroes, Fewer Statues

Huffington Post

Should Only Certain Doctors Be Able to Prescribe Antibiotics?

KevinMD

Waist Loss vs. Weight Loss

MarketWatch; NextAvenue.org

Pilgrimage To The People’s Climate March

Huffington Post

Cranberry Juice & Bladder Infections

Next Ave

The Big Problem With Statins

Forbes

Slow Down to Get There Better: the Bicycle-Automobile Interface

Star Tribune

Scalp Cooling and Chemo Hair

Huffington Post

Akirastatin: On Discovering the Small Edge of Something Very Big

“The Hilarious World of Depression”

Huffington Post

No Flu–Or FluMist–For You

Huffington Post

Katie May’s Death: Neck manipulation or not?

Huffington Post

A Countercultural Agriculture

Huffington Post

EpiPen Prices Sting

Huffington Post

The best screening test is the one that gets done

Huffington Post

Low Salt Diet Assaulted

Huffington Post

Cold Turkey vs. Slow Turkey

Huffington Post

On Pain & Healing

Next Ave

When Breath Becomes Air

Huffington Post

Am I health care business metric or a physician?

KevinMD

Stories You Missed in 2015

Next Ave

‘Tis The Season of Audi

Sojourners

Second Hand Bacon Smoke

Huffington Post

Essure, the ‘Tube Tying’ Alternative

Huffington Post

Traditional Blood Pressure Readings Get a Demotion

Next Ave

Board Certification is No Guarantee of Excellent Patient Care

KevinMD

FDA on Arthritis and Pain Drugs

Next Ave

Cure Yourself of Planning and ‘Dis Ease’

Huffington Post

The Tell-Tale Heart Test

Huffington Post

Signs of the Times

Huffington Post

My Interview with Today’s Hospitalist

There Will Be Blood: Minnesota’s State Bird, the Mosquito

Get Up Offa That Thing!

Huffington Post

Trash Talkin’ Earth Day

MinnPost

Annex the Baja

Huffington Post

The Swedish Prostate Cancer Team

Huffington Post

Climate Change Event Celebrates ‘Traditional’ Minnesota Winter – Before It’s Too Late

MinnPost

The Scalawag Norovirus

Huffington Post

As the Stomach Churns

Huffington Post

You Take Santa, Please

Sojourners

Oxygen Nation

Huffington Post

The ‘Dis-Ease’ of Disease

Huffington Post

In Nuclear Power, Is There a Better Way?

Star Tribune

Office Blood Pressure Let Us Down

Wash Post

Busted Gut? Maybe Trust Your Gut

Huffington Post

Solar Sex Panels and Heart Disease

Huffington Post

Patriotism and the Micturition Reflex

Huffington Post

Bright Idea For a Bad Disease

Huffington Post

Flu Vaccine: The Best You Can Do

Huffington Post

The Science of Regret

Huffington Post

Fungal Meningitis: How a Wimpy Ubiquitous Black Mold Turned to the Dark Side

MinnPost

New Tick-Virus In Town

MPR

Silly Drug Ads!

MPR

Is it Time for T?

Slate

Shadowy World of Low T

Next Ave

Misplaced Curiosity

Huffington Post

9/11 Diary

Huffington Post

Routine Screenings Necessary?

MPR

How We Treat Heart Disease

Huffington Post

2010: Year in Medicine

MPR

Sexercise

Slate

Hospital Contract Dispute: Will More Nurses Mean Better Care and Lower Costs?

MinnPost

The Mammography Debate

Huffington Post

Billionaire Ponzi-Schemer Says Pituitary Tumor Warrants Leniency on Sentencing

MinnPost

Talk Health Care

MPR

Thoughts on Leaving Haiti: Twin Cities Doctor Heads Home

MinnPost

Twin Cities Physician in Haiti Sees Battle Slowly Turning

MinnPost

Tuesday, Bloody Tuesday: A Minnesota Physician on the Ground in Haiti

MinnPost

Connecting Crystal Meth and Public Perception to Minnesota’s Rising HIV Cases

MinnPost

Surfin’ USA: Will H1N1 Ride a Third Wave?

MinnPost

2009: Year in Medicine

MPR

The Fury of H1N1: Meeting the Virus in Its Most Virulent Form, Face to Face

MinnPost

America’s Health Care Addiction

Huffington Post

Why Some People Will Say ‘No’ to the H1N1 Vaccine

MinnPost

An Interview with H1N1 Expert Michael Osterholm

MinnPost

‘Uncertain Resource’: Do we have a water crisis, or a crisis of water management?

MinnPost

The 2009 Nobel Conference: Water An Uncertain Resource

MinnPost

H1N1 Continues to Bully School-Aged Children, But Extend Senior Discount

MinnPost

Give Us A ‘V’, Give Us An ‘A’, Give Us An H1N1 Vaccine

MinnPost

Will H1N1 Pandemic Peak Before Vaccine Arrives?

MinnPost

Will H1N1 Pandemic Peak Before Vaccine Arrives?

MinnPost

You Can’t Catch Swine Flu From a Pork Chop Anymore Than You Can Catch Lymes Disease From Eating Key Lime Pie

MinnPost

Taster’s Choice: How Do Tastebuds Work?

Minnesota Monthly

Health Overhaul

MPR

Chronic Heartburn: A Promising Treatment for a Serious Complication

MinnPost

Royal Flush: Do the Risks of Colonic Therapy Outweigh the Benefits

Minnesota Monthly

Swine Flu H1N1: What Is a ‘Suspect Case’—and Is Summer on Our Side?

MinnPost

Flu Outbreak Has Officials Crying Pork, Not Fowl

MinnPost

Improving a Health-Care System’s Food Culture

MinnPost

Will Prostate Cancer Screening Save Your Life, Or Needlessly Complicate It?

MinnPost

Predicting Who Will Get Cardiovascular Disease

MinnPost

Pain Isn’t All in Your Head—But Some of It Is. A Conversation with Kevin Kling

Minnesota Monthly

Attn Mr President: Some of the Lethal Effects of Smoking Come Pronto

MinnPost

Toppling King Nut Peanut Butter From His Throne

MinnPost

The Great Alexander: A Decades-Old Technique That Can Help Low Back Pain

Minnesota Monthly

Unrealistic Attitudes About Death

Wash Post

George W. Bush’s Slapstick COPD Mailer

MinnPost

Best Columns: US

The Week

The Dying of the Light

Wash Post

Dying a Good Death

MPR

Avoid These Tainted Weight Loss Products

MinnPost

Can Happiness Be Transmitted, And If So, How Far?

What Ailed Minnesotans in 2007?

MinnPost

Take the Flu Quiz! It’s Good For You

MinnPost

Examining the Alternative: A Doctor Investigates the Promise of Natural Remedies

Minnesota Monthly

Blood Pressure Medication Called “Beta-Blocker” Underperform

MinnPost

Testing for Mutated Genes in Stool Shows Promises for Colon Cancer Screening

MinnPost

Vitamin D Reaches Superstar Status

MinnPost

Daily Cialis: Treatment Breakthrough or Marketing Ploy?

MinnPost

Mama Took a Quinolone and Her What Popped Off?

MinnPost

Our Cells Would Be Lost Without Telomeres

MinnPost

Why We Still Need the Measles Vaccine

MinnPost

Public Television Documentary Chronicles Alzheimer’s Spreading Impact

MinnPost

Is the Low Fat Diet Going Belly Up?

MinnPost

Tim Russert’s Death Raises Anxiety Over Heart Disease

MinnPost

The Tick Quiz: See Attachment

MinnPost

Depression Comes Out of the Shadows

MinnPost

Room For Improvement: Minnesota’s DWI Rankings

MinnPost

The Perils of Discerning ‘Expert Medical Opinion’

MinnPost

Chest Compression Anyone? CPR For Bystanders

MinnPost

Team Owners Keep the Cash Cow, Ask the Public to Build the Barn

Star Tribune

More Head-Scratching With Zetia Study

MinnPost

Even Good Hospitals Can Make Mystifying Mistakes

MinnPost

If Effervescent Shields Won’t Protect You Against In-Flight Ilk, What Will?

MinnPost

How Liquefying Swine Brains Led to a Neuropathy in Some Pork Workers

MinnPost

Dr. Jarvik’s Lipitor Ads

MinnPost

The Swab of Truth: Can We Finally Prove You Don’t Need Antibiotics For That Cold of Yours?

MinnPost

Study Causing Some Chest Pains Over Drug Zetia

MinnPost

Smoking Cessation Drug Chantix Deserves a Chance

MinnPost

Want to Stop Smoking: First Treat It As An Addiction

MinnPost

The Flu Vaccine: Is a Shot in the Arm Worth Two Squirts in the Schnoz?

MinnPost

Sorry, You Have An Illness Not Endorsed by a Celebrity

Pioneer Press

Doctors and Drug Companies Too Cozy

MPR

More Powerful Than We Imagine

Star Tribune

The Earitable Child: Why Antibiotics Aren’t Always the Right Solution for Ear Infections

Minnesota Monthly

Fowl Play: the Latest Incarnation of the Bird Flu

Minnesota Monthly

Gardasil Duty

Minnesota Monthly

Botox Rocks

Minnesota Monthly

Why Do You Think They Call It Dope: Generic vs Brand Name Drugs

Minnesota Monthly

Chronic Stadium Fatigue Syndrome

MPR

Dump Mars, Fix the Earth

Star Tribune

— Recent work —

Inspire Device for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Messing with the Blueprints: Gene therapy has arrived

Peyronie’s disease, penile curves and bent carrots

Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections

Prostate Cancer: To treat, or not to treat, that is the question

The Science of the Short Snooze

Inspire Device for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Messing with the Blueprints: Gene therapy has arrived

Peyronie’s disease, penile curves and bent carrots

Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections

Prostate Cancer: To treat, or not to treat, that is the question

The Science of the Short Snooze

Gratitude Takes Practice: How come health care workers aren’t better at it?

Minnesota Live!

Kevin MD Podcast

“A St. Paul physician explains why guys steer clear of the doctor”

WCCO Drive Time with DeRusha, John Hines

Men Talking Shop and Life Admin

MN Personalized Medicine

KAXE Northern Community Radio

WCCO Drive Time with DeRusha

Kevin MD Man Overboard! chapter excerpt

SIU School of Medicine Alumni Event

The Morning Show, Wisconsin Public Radio

I Dare You Podcast with Darrin Johnson

The Common Cold and Flu are Back: Nostalgia in the Worst Way

Death Knell for Cadavers

The Hot-headed Skunk Cabbage

Omicron by the Numbers: A stocking stuffer

A New COVID Pill: How and how well does it work?

Long-Haul COVID: MPR News with Angela Davis

What to know about Long-Haul COVID

For many, an aspirin a day won’t keep the doctor away

Moving Backward (Masking, again) to Move Forward (Controlling Delta surge)

Discussing “Note Bloat” on KevinMD podcast

Straight Outta Crookston: How a kid from small town Minnesota became an authority on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Note Bloat: Are Additive Solutions Humans’ Default Mode?

Top Medical Stories of 2020 (Besides COVID)

Vengeance is Sweet, But Who Needs the Extra Calories?

Breaking the Cycle: Changing How We Deal With Addiction

Why Pandemic Projections are Bewilderingly Different

COVID-19 “Snuck Up” on No One

Hospitals Run on So Much More Than Doctors and Nurses, So Spread the Love

How Can an Asymptomatic Person Still Spread the Coronavirus?

Hard Realities and Hope. A Conversation with journalist and author Tim Madigan

A Checklist in Caring for the Vulnerable during COVID

More Genie Glasses, Please

A COVID-19 Primer

How Precision Medicine is Changing Cancer Treatment

Can a CAC prevent a heart attack?

Udder Confusion: Are Dairy Foods Good For Us?

Deep Time on the Stone Arch Bridge

Where to Next with Alzheimer’s Research?

Ask Your Doctor If TV Drugs Are Right For You

SpaceX Announces Self-Retrieving Video Capsule Endoscopy

Schnozology, and Is it Sinus Congestion or a Sinus Infection?

A guest appearance on “The Wide-Eyed Creative Podcast, with Bob Stromberg”

How Do Doctors Think? Heuristics Aren’t Heretical

Health Care Career Advice: Leave the Country ASAP

Fantastical Heart Stent Uses and Where to Find Them

More Heroes, Fewer Statues

Should Only Certain Doctors Be Able to Prescribe Antibiotics?

Waist Loss vs. Weight Loss

Pilgrimage To The People’s Climate March

Cranberry Juice & Bladder Infections

The Big Problem With Statins

Slow Down to Get There Better: the Bicycle-Automobile Interface

Scalp Cooling and Chemo Hair

Top Medical Stories for 2016

Akirastatin: On Discovering the Small Edge of Something Very Big

“The Hilarious World of Depression”

No Flu–Or FluMist–For You

Katie May’s Death: Neck manipulation or not?

A Countercultural Agriculture

EpiPen Prices Sting

The best screening test is the one that gets done

Low Salt Diet Assaulted

Cold Turkey vs. Slow Turkey

On Pain & Healing