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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Amish Country is probably the last place one would think of genomic R and D activity, but not so. Here’s a post from July of 2008. The original study focused on locating deadly genetic diseases, but out of the study came a mutation that could lead to development of new types of medications...
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’s child has the best gene in the bunch and who would...
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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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 million in funding from new investor Blackstone Cleantech...
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 Doctor”. We already have a dwindling...
Yesterday I posted about Bank of American hiring more research analysts in the area of healthcare investing and and also stated that Blogs are now becoming part of the research process , I have found several who read this blog. This page relates back to a a post about the commitment of the DeCode...
When will it start paying the bills? The science and development is somewhat fragmented like the rest of health care, and this is not to say in any way that phenomenal breakthroughs are not occurring by any means as they are. Part of the problem is having enough data, real time data for one...
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This has been the first public announcement I have heard on the topic, even though I began commenting on this about 6 months ago on the blog here, good to see it is work in progress. First order of business is to get some standardizations in place. The National Library of Congress is...