POSTS TAGGED AS personalized medicine

p-Medicine, the EU’s Approach

“Matryoshka” is the name for those Russian “little matron” nesting dolls. Besides being a pretty folk art form, they [MORE]

Hospitals’ Cultural Wars

One aspect of personalized medicine that’s often overlooked is the “personalized” culture of the hospital, where effectiveness and efficiency [MORE]

Fox Chase’s Cancer Genome Institute

Life Technologies, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA)-formed from a 2008 merger of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems-has reached an agreement with [MORE]

$10m Prize for Mobile Medical Diagnostics

Last month, the X Prize Foundation (Playa Vista, CA) announced its $10m prize for a portable diagnostic device that [MORE]

Vivia Biotech to Implement UNIFlowLaboratory Management System

Vivia Biotech, Leader in Personalized Medicine for Cancers of the Blood, Signs Agreement to Implement UNIConnect’s UNIFlow Enterprise [MORE]

Cleveland Clinic’s New Personalized Healthcare Center

Cleveland Clinic’s new Center for Personalized Healthcare aims to use healthcare IT more effectively in tailoring an integrated approach to [MORE]

Brookings Study on IT and Personalized Medicine

It has happened before, and often: scientific discovery running ahead of medical practice and public policy, with consumer demand [MORE]

Celera’s CHD-Risk Diagnostic

On the short arm of Chromosome 6 is a variant of the KIF6 gene (i.e. kinesin-like family protein 6) [MORE]

Conference Presentation on Personalized Medicine by Dr. Fickenscher

Kevin M. Fickenscher, M.D., CPE, FACPE, FAAFP,  the Chief Strategy and Development Officer for Dell Healthcare Services on an international [MORE]

Bringing DNA Sequencing to Routine Diagnostics

DNA sequencing (on microarrays) is competitive with contemporary biomarker-based PCR assays, on cost per assay target, sensitivity, specificity, assay protocol [MORE]

Achieving the Promise of Genomic Medicine

It has been 10 years since the publication of the first draft of the sequence of the human genome. This [MORE]

Fickescher and Davis to Speak at Medical Automation Conference

Dr. Kevin M. Fickenscher, Chief Strategy and Development Officer, Dell Healthcare Services, returns this year to present, Personalized Medicine - [MORE]

Personalized Medicine - The Future of Healthcare

It is becoming increasingly clear that the healthcare community is changing, and it is changing fast. One field that continues [MORE]

The Information Based Transformation to Value Based, Personalized Healthcare

Much of the dialogue around personalized medicine focuses on the scientific and biotechnology breakthroughs we have witnessed in recent years, [MORE]

Upward Trend for Microfluidic Chips

Microfluidics applications are rising in both scientific and clinical medicine and Kevin Hrusovsky, CEO of chip-maker Caliper Life Sciences [MORE]

Sharing Tissue for Research

Here’s an example of two trains heading toward each other on the same track.  A couple of years ago, [MORE]

Predicting Diabetes

Starting from samples in blood biorepositories, where diabetes outcomes were tracked over time and known, scientists at Tethys Bioscience [MORE]

Download for “Personalized Preventative Healthcare”

While this free download derives from European studies of the wellness spectrum, the key concept applies everywhere: “Because quality [MORE]

DNA Sequencing Via Microfluidics

David Weitz and physicist colleagues at Harvard have done preliminary work that shows DNA can be sequenced using a [MORE]

Your Microbiome

A human genome has about 25k genes, but the “acquired human microbiome,” in the trillions of microbial cells that inhabit [MORE]