Tag: personalized medicine
Blog Posts (10)
May 14, 2013
Angelina Jolie’s mastectomy account raises awareness of gene testing
[The Guardian] It was an extraordinarily public declaration of an incredibly private experience. But when Angelina Jolie took to the comment pages of the New York Times to declare that she had undergone a double mastectomy, she spearheaded a new awaren...March 30, 2013
Scientists unravel genetic causes of prostate, breast and ovarian cancer
[The Guardian] Research involving 1,000 scientists finds scores of genetic markers that identify people most likely to develop diseases A national screening programme for prostate cancer could be introduced by the NHS in the wake of a huge internatio...March 28, 2013
How Much Monitoring Is Too Much?
[Scientific American] It started in the ‘70s. A pregnant woman with diabetes faced a deeply entrenched medical routine: months in hospital having her blood glucose closely monitored. She managed to stay out by convincing her doctor, Clara Lowy, to le...March 18, 2013
Drawing the line on racially motivated patient demands
[American Medical News] Patients’ right to choose who treats them is limited when requests are discriminatory. Health care facilities are advised to have policies for such cases. When patients make demands about who should care for them based on...March 6, 2013
UNC Experts Propose a Framework for Genomic Screening in Healthy Adults
[Science Daily] Mar. 6, 2013 — Millions of people unknowingly carry rare gene mutations that put them at high risk of developing preventable diseases such as colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and several catastrophic blood vessel disorders. Universit...February 19, 2013
Walmart Health Screening Stations Touted As Part Of ‘Self-Service Revolution’
[Kaiser Health News] STERLING, Va. – Perched by a computer monitor wedged between shelves of cough drops and the pharmacy in a bustling Walmart, Mohamed Khader taps out answers to questions such as how often he eats vegetables, whether anyone in ...September 14, 2009
Something to Say about Personal Genomics? Here's Your Chance.
Hat tip to the Business Ethics blog for letting us know about a new research study on personal genomics, privacy and consent currently underway being conducted online from researchers at at University of British Columbia, Saint Mary’s University, & Ryerson University.…
December 2, 2008
Is the Era of Personalized Medicine (Almost) Really Here?
In the last week, I’ve read two news items that have resulted in my asking the question, “Is the era of personalized medicine really here?…
November 5, 2008
Consider the Source
The American College of Preventive Medicine has announced via MarketWatch that it will be producing a new CME program to help physicians understand genetic information in the coming era of personalized medicine.…
October 20, 2008
Letting the Genome Loose? No Biggie.
Announced today in the NYT, Harvard Medical School unveiled the first 10 participants in their Personal Genome Project.
Ranging from entrepreneurs to academics to healthcare execs, the goal of the project is to raise awareness about the possibility of personal genomes for everyone.…
News (2)
December 13, 2012 5:42 pm
Personalized Cancer Medicine: Drugs Based On Genetics Alone Will Never Be True Cure (Huffington Post)
Despite variation in cell behavior, cancer cell “clones” all had identical genomes, supposedly the all-powerful determinant of how cancer cells behave. This finding underlines that a tumor’s behavior depends on something other than its DNA.
July 27, 2012 5:53 pm
Is personalized medicine a myth? (CNN)
Personalized medicine can deliver better information to help patients make an individual choice about the risks and rewards of a particular course of treatment: which medicines will work for him or her, which drugs may pose a danger and whether doses may need to be adjusted. Personalized medicine can also help profile someone’s potential risk for contracting a disease like cancer or diabetes. But not everyone agrees with Topol. “Personalized medicine is a myth. It’s hyperbolic,” argued Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost for global initiatives and chairman of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.