Will Plavix be the next drug up for a genetic test? There are not many alternative drugs either that could easily replace the functionality of Plavix, it is a blood thinner. One idea would be to monitor patients with poor liver or kidney metabolization. as suggested here , a blog written...
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This is a very good point, getting all the data organized into a fashion where it can be used and analyzed. Back a few months ago when I interviewed Patrice Milos, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, of Helicos BioSciences I asked the same question, and also if each interpretation would...
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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 from queried results. A while back I had the opportunity...
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Pfizer is wasting no time to get the calculations running and numbers rolling. To stay in the market, they are attempting to find out as much as they can about potential side effects and other perhaps adverse affects of their drugs. Better than they find up them front, as it will make for better...
The company, Accium Biosciences runs a device called a spectrometer, and it qualifies the amount of c-14, present in a sample, so what does all this mean? The sample gives information relative to the drug makers as to how the drugs are working, big news coinciding with personalized medicine. This...
If you have not read up yet on personalized medicine this is a great article that will go through the basics in layman's terms...there are 4 links below to each section...and the last area is the toughest...the challenges as it will all be work in progress for quite a while to come...so somebody...
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