POSTS TAGGED AS personalized medicine

Understanding Third Generation DNA Sequencers

First generation DNA sequencers worked by identifying bases in short sections of DNA (50-150 bases at a time).  They [MORE]

Clinical Usefulness of Sequencing, Another Example

When will DNA sequencing become a common option in clinical medicine?  With most healthcare providers that may be a [MORE]

Computational Medicine Perspective

In 2005, The Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering and its School of Medicine began a collaboration called [MORE]

Analytics for Personalized, Predictive Medicine

This piece is pretty close to a commercial ad for IBM’s “Patient Care and Insights” analytical software, but it [MORE]

UPMC’s Data Warehouse for Personalized Medicine

A key difference between healthcare providers which claim to be offering “more personalized medicine” than ever and those that [MORE]

Social Factors in Hospital Readmissions

This piece raises the question of social factors, like employment, home location, etc, being relevant to hospital readmissions which [MORE]

Robotic/Bionic Prosthetic

iWALK
According to this piece, “iWalk (Bedford, MA) has created a system that is the world’s first proven bionic intervention that [MORE]

Personalized Knee Prosthetics

Partial Knee Replacement
Surgeons implant some 600,000 total knee replacements ever year, but it is a bloody business with risks [MORE]

How Useful is Sequencing for Disease Prediction?

Dr. Bert Vogelestein
A familiar assertion in “personalized medicine” is that DNA sequencing will be able to predict future health [MORE]

IBM Launches Clinical Genomics in Italy

IBM Clinical Genomics
Not long after IBM’s “Watson” computer won the Jeopardy challenge, the machine’s adaptation to clinical medicine was [MORE]

Problems with Sequencing Tumor Cells

It is common knowledge that it’s better to catch cancer in an early state than later. The reason is that [MORE]

Ion Torrent Sequencer in Hospital Testing

ITOR gene sequencing chip
2012 is a big year for South Carolina’s Greenville Hospital System: it celebrates its centennial as [MORE]

A Handheld DNA Sequencer for $900

Mini Sequencer
DNA sequencing is an idea that has launched many ships, and the latest technology in this field is [MORE]

Complete Genomics’ Sequencing Service

While a year ago, the FDA put a hold on companies selling genomic kits directly to consumers, researchers are [MORE]