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As mentioned in prior posts, is Plavix a good candidate for personalized medicine, since it is a blood thinner. Right now with the new warning, it is basically telling you that it might not work for you so with a test perhaps the guess work someday could be eliminated. FDA To look at benefits...
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The race to getting a full and affordable entire gene sequence just became a little more competitive. As I have posted before, Intel sees promise here as an investor and you can view the list of current customers below, some big names to include the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute...
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Myriad may somewhat be a familiar name and if you don’t know who the company is think about the HER breast cancer gene test, that’s the company and now they have come out with a genetics based test to help determine the risk of recurrence with prostate cancer. The company plans on educating physicians...
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Pharmacy benefit managers are getting creative and this appears to be another “business intelligence” solution to work with costs with insurance companies for cost, so if we want more genetic testing, here comes the management service to market and negotiate prices with employers . Remember too...
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With the Olympics running in full force now, this seems to be a good time to talk about the next frontier in keeping athletic competition pure and with normal human abilities. We all know about those who have been busted for steroids, but now with genomic sequencing a whole new potential has been...
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02-21-2010
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As is indicated again the Warfarin dosing for blood thinning label has changed. Perhaps the future is an implanted device? Last year I did a post about the Watchman and a year later there are actually 5 people walking around with a Watchman implanted in the UK . This was also a set...
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This is a beginning groundwork for a commercial test. This could also lead to tests for other types of cancer, such as prostate and kidney cancer. This is similar to the breast cancer study for inherited genes in short. Pancreas cancer is so deadly and with having information up front...
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One of the first areas that pops into my head is Genomics, being data heavy and intense. The link below explains more about how to enroll for the program for anyone doing research in a new or approved project. This is an independent federal agency to promote the growth of scientific discovery...
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For those readers that are not keen on technology this may stand to be another awakening to the fact that algorithmic codes create profits, along with the automated hardware to fill prescriptions. See a prior post below where the money was just under 15 billion, not million, billion with a B. ...
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I have featured this video before here at the Quack and it is well worth another look on how the world of personalized medicine is growing, based on the PGP (Personal Genome Project) from it’s start to where we are with this knowledge today. George Church has a great partner in his wife too...
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This is a large breakthrough in the fact that new drugs can be designed and perhaps less toxic to attack specific targets. As mentioned this study will appear in PLos Genetics journal. Look at the computing power here, as the article states results were analyzed more than a billion times...
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01-28-2010
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All DNA samples and medical records have been de-identified so use in research can take place. The research will be able to determine if genetic information in the medical records could help improve patient care via using personalized medicine, based on genomic information added to a medical chart...
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Now that the code has been “cracked” this will lead to the creation of drugs that will be able to target these areas, and maybe even a cure. This is truly big news as the 2 of the most deadly types of cancer have been identified for targeting. A blood test will be able to help diagnose in...
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Not too long ago I posted about Dr. Oz taking a visit to Wake Forest where most of this is taking place and now this Sunday 60 Minutes will be providing an update. I have included the trailer for the show below. Dr. Oz Visits a regenerative medicine lab in Wake Forest Dr. Oz talked about...
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We have the proof of principle but more work is needed. As noted below this type of treatment could be expanded into other area of chronic diseases. The testing so far has been with mice but a big step forward. BD AIDS researchers have for the first time demonstrated that human...