Patient engagement as important as the data
The thought of having unfettered access to all the medical and genomic data of a million Americans had researchers gathered at the National Institutes of Health’s first workshop on precision medicine...
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In the capital of digital sharing and over-sharing, Silicon Valley, contributing one’s whole genome to science in the name of fun and self-knowledge has never felt that controversial. Engineers share...
View ArticlePrecision medicine in the real world
In a perfect world, doctors would have the diagnostics to determine the right treatment for each patient at the right dose and the right time. It would be called precision medicine. In our world,...
View ArticleIgnoring the science for a bigger box of crayons
Once upon a time in the days before enlightenment, we tried to use science to develop our drugs. Believe it or not, researchers actually had to come up with a hypothesis of how a drug might work, what...
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