Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD

In defense of artificial sweeteners

Publish date: June 26, 2023

If more trials on artificial sweeteners are planned, they should be performed on people doing human things – which does not include ingesting 60...

Publish date: October 11, 2022

Enthusiastic presentations on the use of AI in medicine at a recent conference left this cardiologist concerned about the potential loss of human...

Publish date: February 14, 2022

Pandemic-era physicians must now consider whether a politically motivated choice to decline COVID-19 vaccination should negatively affect the...

Publish date: October 22, 2021

Some older adults have mitigated their risk for myocardial infarction by taking aspirin, says doctor.

Publish date: March 2, 2021

The firing of a physician who made use of soon-to-expire COVID-19 vaccine doses rather than flush them epitomizes the loss of physician autonomy...