Today, The Lancet published the most thorough analysis of the genome of a single human being, Stanford bioengineer Stephen Quake. As the cost of genomic sequencing continues to drop, making it available to more people, it’s important to analyze that information in a way that is clinically relevant. When a patient goes to their doctor [...]

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The FDA today approved Provenge (sipuleucel-T), a new cancer “vaccine” made by Dendreon for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer among men with an estimated 192,000 new cases and 27,000 deaths in 2009.
This is an important event that marks the approval of the [...]

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Here’s an impressing interactive visualization about the cost of chronic disease management by GE obtained from combining data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey with 500,000 medical records in GE’s database. Click on the picture to go to the site.

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Today, the WSJ cites the results of a study by the California HealthCare Foundation on electronic medical records stating that 15% of the 1,849 adults surveyed reported concealing information from a physician if “the doctor had an electronic medical record system” that could share  information with other groups. Another 33% would “consider [...]

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Here’s a promising way to monitor medication adherence:
Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule. The prototype is intended to pave the way for mass-produced pills that, when ingested, automatically alert doctors, loved ones [...]

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In the recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard oncologist Jerome Groopman and his colleague Pamela Hartzband talk about how the Internet is providing broader access to information, including the kind that has traditionally been available only to physicians. In doing so, the Internet may be changing the patient-doctor relationship:
As physicians, we [...]

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There is an emerging body of evidence on using sound waves (ultrasound) to raise temperature levels in tumors and dangerous blood clots in order to shrink or eliminate them. The technology company InSightec is at the forefront of experimenting with this modality in the treatment of certain types of cancers and the type of brain [...]

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A new editorial in Nature highlights a growing consensus among economists and policy-makers that “governments’ reliance on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the main proxy for social well-being and progress is leading the world in wrong and unsustainable directions.”
For example, healthcare spending in the U.S., representing about 17% of our GDP, may be inflating the [...]

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