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Dr. Eric Topol
Cardiologist, digital medicine researcher, podcast host
Cardiology • digital health • evidence-based medicine • host of Ground Truths podcast
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Focus: Mainstream-anchored interpretation of new health research, especially in cardiology, digital health, and pandemic-era science
Founder and Director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, Professor of Molecular Medicine at Scripps Research, Editor-in-Chief of Medscape. One of the most-cited researchers in medicine (>325k citations). Host of the Ground Truths podcast, focused on evidence-based interpretation of new health research. Author of multiple books on the future of medicine. Strong mainstream-anchored framing across cardiology, digital health, and pandemic science.
Expert discussions with Dr. Eric Topol
Illuminating Long Covid: Ground Truths Podcast with Ziyad Al-Aly and Eric Topol
Long COVID may quietly affect many organ systems for months or years after the acute infection clears. The risk is real even after mild infections and includes new-onset diabetes, heart, kidney, and brain effects. Re-infection appears to add to the risk, not reset it.
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid
Many respiratory infections may travel through indoor air as small particles that linger and accumulate, not just close-range droplets that fall within feet. Major institutions including the WHO initially dismissed airborne COVID spread, despite outbreak evidence going back almost a century. Indoor air quality may become a public health frontier on the scale of clean water.