If you want to do some reading up on the topic, this site may offer some help, along with the upcoming conference to be held here in the Los Angeles area in October. As posted recently there are plans for many of the service companies, such as 23andMe , Navigenics , DeCode, LabCorp , and perhaps...
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on 09-11-2008
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How much information is enough? It appears today that there's never enough to go around. Hopefully as the field of personalized medicine grows we will have more answers in the ability to predict and understand more about how different drugs work and what the projected outcomes will be...
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on 09-10-2008
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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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on 07-03-2008
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Also, recent announcements include a letter of intent to work with deCODE, a biopharmaceutical company applying its discoveries in human genetics to the development of drugs and diagnostics for common diseases...BD DALLAS and NEW YORK, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Preventive Medicine(R), ( http://www.uspreventivemedicine...
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on 05-06-2008
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