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Some issues are a result of still being paper driven as timely reports and real time information are not available, but they are not the only government agency in this scenario, only one of the most critical though. Also, some members of Congress don’t use computers either and felt uncomfortable...
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It is still at the mice testing stage, but 80% tested had a reversal of diabetes and in other cases it prevented the onset of diabetes. Side effects, etc. will need to be studied as well, but this looks very promising if in fact the drugs can prevent diabetes for many, especially children if their...
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The American Medical Association administration recommends that genetic testing be carried out under the personal supervision of a qualified health care professional, but the lines get a bit gray in between what is actual clinical credible data and what is still science. Education of both the physicians...
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Not available here in the US yet, but this is a genomic based test that is cancer specific. Nobody likes having a biopsy done by any means and this appears to be working in that direction, in other words more information available to perhaps avoid biopsies that are perhaps not required. BD...
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Yes there is a genomics based test for this now, male and female. Inquiring minds want to know. If the answer comes back yes, then get a hold of some Propecia ©. If you have the gene variant, you have approximately a 70% chance of going bald, and the same in reverse if you do not have...
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It is here but evolving slower than what all of us might like to see, and in many areas it is still so much of a “Science” but as developments occur through biotech we are seeing some amazing results. There’s also the bridging of the gap with bringing genomics to the point of care, as physicians...
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The cost sometime next year though may go down with Complete Genomics and their upcoming offer of $5000.00 to sequence a complete individual DNA. There are some that don’t share the same interest in view of privacy issues, but in my small opinion, privacy is pretty much only existing in the shadows...
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10-19-2008
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Recently announced is the project to begin at Scripps in San Diego as related news, coupled with the announcement of the new sequencing service that will be able to offer a complete sequence at a wholesale price may have held a bit of inspiration here for Navigenics to enter the full sequencing market...
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One thing that comes to mind is what a waste of talent here. Series of events lead up to where he is today, but started when he ran out of money for his research related to the GFP gene and cancer. “Researchers worldwide now use GFP to track development of brain cells, the growth of tumors...
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However, their prescription drug unit faced the same problems as the rest of the Pharma industry. A smart investment in consumer products is helping hold things together for J and J. The consumer product division was purchased from Pfizer in 2006, which was the company purchased by Pfizer...
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10-14-2008
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The group has grown in 7 years from five people focused on healthcare worldwide at Microsoft; now there are more than 700. This group is for responsible primarily for the enterprise space (in biopharma and medical devices), so these are the largest customers in the U.S. I have provided a...
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10-09-2008
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In this interview article McKesson discusses visualization and showing the physicians the information they that need to know at the point of decision making at the point of care. The EHR will have to support genetic knowledge. They are working with Proventys to create an integrated product...
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I would say genomics and personalized medicine is a very hot topic and developing fast, based on 4 machines being ordered from Singapore. Just this week Stanford university ordered their single sequencing machines from Helicos. Stay tuned and there’s plenty of sequencing and personalized...
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10,000 employees, family members or friends of employees of Scripps will be able to participate in the study, Affymetrix to Scan, Navigenics to interpret and offer life style guidance and the Microsoft HealthVault will be the place where participants can enter information and share it as they see fit...
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Not only do we see venture capital money here, also some big Pharma names. In a related story, Roche sees diagnostic machines and test kits as crucial to assessing and treating disease in the future and their risk profile has recognition of being one large investor in a growing area of drug research...