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Testing Children for “Sports” Gene?

This is pretty controversial in essence, if you have ever watched parent already getting pretty steamed up at baseball and soccer games, so next we could easily have some heated discussions on how long each child can play with parents feuding over who...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 5:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, children

Heartbeat of a new industry – Stem Cell Storage Banks

One of the founds is no other than James Thomson, an early stem cell pioneer, and the company just raised a few million more with investors, so all biomed is not in the same situation, I think it depends largely on what area of biomed is the focus. ...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 12:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, DNA, Genomics, Organs, R and D, Stem Cells, healthcare science, IPS Cells, drug reactions

Personalized medicine will rely on IT – It’s all about Software

Let’s put it another way, it can’t exist without IT. Again it all comes back to running algorithms to obtain desired results. As I have mentioned before, Algorithms is one of the hottest words right now in healthcare as we all make decisions...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 10:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Biotech, Pharmacogenomics, Helicos, Sequencing

Pacific Biosciences Raises $20M in New Funding

The manufacturers of the machines that run our DNA are still very much in the forefront, gaining investors with DNA sequencing. BD NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Menlo Park, Calif.-based Pacific Biosciences today said that it recently received $20...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 11:35 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Sequencing

Biotech Campaigns for Easier Access to Generic Drug Market - Can we put the decision making process back in the hands of the clinicians..and what about biosimilars...

It should be the discretion of individual physicians, not insurance companies or pharmacies, to substitute a branded biologic for a biosimilar, which goes back to putting the physician in the decision making process, not the non clinical analyzers. ...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 2:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, DNA, Genomics, Biotech, Research, Congress, Pharmaceuticals, Biosimilars

OralDNA to Distribute Periodontal Disease Genetic Test in US - DNA at the Dentist's Office

Dentists now are coming in to the fold of DNA genomics tests. This test is very specific to assess risk for periodontal disease, so as a younger patient, as chances are as we age if we are at risk we may already have this, this could be a good indicator...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 10:12 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Dentist, Periodontal Disease

A Woman With Male Chromosomes? What's in that DNA report?

An interesting story on what a DNA report can reveal, in this case the woman has an X and a Y, instead of two Xs, like most females. It is somewhat rare but does exist with having internal testicles, and this produces extra high levels of estrogen...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 12:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, DNA, healthcare, Biotech, Science, Pharmacogenomics, Biomed, Chromosomes

New Prostate Cancer Test is Ready for Commercialization - Personalized Medicine

After all the recent news about the PSA test, here's a genomics answer. The MD Anderson Cancer Center, demonstrated a very high success rate for identifying the presence of Grade 3 or higher prostate cancer cells. The new prostate cancer...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 2:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, Prostate Cancer, Pharmacogenomics, PSA, Cancer Test

Broad Institute Makes Genomics Data Viewer Public - Free software download...

The software offers both detailed, localized views of genomic data, and a whole genome view, in a format somewhat similar to the way Google presents items on the web. It is free to download and use. There are also some sample data files available...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 2:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Research, Pharmacogenomics, MIT, Biomed, Broad Institute, Harvard

The CAVEman 4D visual system - Visual Genomics

The program uses just plain old Java, but add this technology with sequencing information and with the 4D applications, studies can be virtually conducted to see how a medication would react with selected settings. Its resolution is scaleable to...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 8:50 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, DNA, Genomics, Research, Pharmacogenomics, Biomed, Disease, Virtual Reality

Muscle Pain from Statins? Time for a genetic evaluation - Personalized Medicine

This is good, a genomics test that can give some preliminary results on whether or not statins will have an adverse effect before prescribing them. As the post states here, this is something that could certainly use some marketing to physicians...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 11:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, DNA, Genomics, Prescriptions, Pharmacogenomics, Statins

GSK chief elaborates on biotech strategy

One CEO comes out and states how biotech will be the new focus for Glaxo, as in a related story whereby patients will require genetic testing for their AIDS drug, Ziagen. In the future I’m sure there will be more about big pharma and their biotech...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 2:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, Pharma, Glaxo

deCode Genetics – Chief Scientific Officer – DNA Test may have saved his life…Prostate Cancer Diagnosis as a result

An executive of the company had his own DNA tested and the results were shocking and unexpected to say the least. Recently deCode Genetics spoke about working more with physicians in the education process of personalized medicine . The test...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 12:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Genetics, DNA, Genomics, Prostate Cancer, PSA, DeCode

A Musical Score for Disease – Listening to Cancer Genes?

This is very interesting and thanks to Medgadget for finding this one. Will we someday be listening to cancer genes and perhaps others? If you would like to hear what the genes sound like, here’s the page. I do have to say that this...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 1:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Genes, Cancer, Harvard Medical School, Science

Are Medical Schools equipped to train students for positions that may not exist yet? New specialty areas developing?

Not too many years ago I remembered hearing the term “hospitalist” and asked what’s that? The hospitalist has evolved and is now one of the top growing professions. With Pharmacogenomics, we might be on the verge of a new specialty, a “Longevity...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2008 1:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Physician, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Pharmacogenomics, Medical School, Personalized Mediince

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