We all recently heard about the warning letters sent from the state of California to firms selling online personal DNA sequencing over the Internet, and requiring a physician’s prescription for the service. One company DeCode, has taken the letter to heart and is revising their marketing plant...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, Sequence, Pharmacogenomics, Diagnostics, CPT, 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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Science, Pharmacogenomics
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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 05-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Labs, personalized medicine, Medicine, DNA, Biotech, healthcare providers, Advocates