Robert Weinstein

For the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, and will continue to demonstrate in the future, that America is one of the unhealthiest countries in the industrialized world....

In medicine as elsewhere in life, if you ask the wrong question, you're likely to get the wrong answer. So if the question is, "Do masks worn outside medical settings...

In the 1967 film "The Graduate," the title character played by Dustin Hoffman attends a post-graduation party where a partygoer beckons him from the boisterous crowd and gives him a...

In a recent NFL game, the Indianapolis Colts led the Minnesota Vikings 33-0 at halftime. At that point, Las Vegas was offering odds better than 100-1 the Colts would win,...

One of the most devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the debt it has created, a debt that we owe our kids that will be hard ever to...

President Joe Biden elucidated his thoughts on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic in an interview with "60 Minutes" last month. "The pandemic is over. ... We still have a...

With 2 1/2 years of COVID-19 experience behind us, we can now identify the missed opportunities the medical and public health communities had to control the pandemic. There are three...

"A man has got to know his limitations." That is one of the memorable phrases uttered by "Dirty Harry" Callahan, the fictional police inspector played by Clint Eastwood. Today, the...

Have public health officials and the news media been less than candid in their explanations of the risk factors in the worldwide monkeypox outbreak? Are we seeing a replay of...