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| Aug 16, 2025 | Leaked MAHA report frustrates food policy experts: ‘Everything is vague and voluntary’ | Back in May, RFK Jr’s MAHA Commission released a report offering a “devastating critique of what American society has done to its kids,” says nutrition expert Prof. Marion Nestle. The follow-up, which was supposed to offer concrete solution... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | A clinical genomicist harnesses team-based science to help rare-disease patients | And though there is still a long way to go — about half of rare disease patients remain undiagnosed — Rehm’s fingerprints can be found on many of the standards and tools that have allowed clinical geneticists to increase their diagnostic su... |
| Jun 4, 2024 | UChicago joins multisite study to improve health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders | The University of Chicago is among five clinical sites conducting a first-of-its-kind study aimed at uncovering risk factors and targeted interventions to better prevent disease in Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (As... |
| Mar 7, 2024 | After unprecedented nutrition study, personalized diet plans may be next | A study underway at 14 clinics nationwide, including LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center and LSU Health New Orleans, may soon help doctors tell patients exactly what they should be eating.
Why it matters: The study will produce a &q... |
| Jan 18, 2024 | A new HHS rule rules takes a far too narrow approach to health care data interoperability | In 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act required that the U.S. make progress toward interoperability, which it defined as “all electronically accessible health information” to be accessed, exchanged and used “without special effort on the part ... |
| Dec 21, 2022 | NIH Funds Ambitious AI Project that will Create Algorithms Predicting the Health Needs of Americans | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 21 December 2022, 02:12 am
Artificial intelligence is pretty much everywhere these days. From apps that generate your images into anime characters to gathering real-time information about the climate crisis - AI h... |
| Jul 29, 2022 | A better understanding of human diversity is needed to equitably advance precision medicine | Precision medicine — tailoring a treatment to an individual’s disease — requires understanding the individual’s biological characteristics. Although medicine and biotech are making significant progress in this area, they have historically b... |
| Apr 25, 2022 | Wearable device data need to represent all of us | The growing uptake of wearable devices has sparked enthusiasm among health researchers, and for good reason. The data generated by fitness and activity trackers offers an exciting new stream of metrics — physical activity, sleep, heart rate... |
| Jan 5, 2022 | GeneASIC Technologies to Exhibit New Genome Data Analysis System at CES 2022 | LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneASIC Technologies will be walking into this year's CES 2022 arm in arm with its first product, the GeneASIC Next-Generation Sequencing Analysis Acceleration Platform (NGSAAP). The annual event dee... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | For the first time ever, a life science company spins out of San Diego’s blood bank | For the first time in its 70-year history, the San Diego Blood Bank is spinning off a life science company in a bid to use blood cells to treat cancer, autoimmunity and other deadly diseases, the organization announced Friday.
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| Feb 22, 2021 | As All of Us moves to diversify medicine, its tech partners push to democratize research | Everyone working from home this year has figured out their own ways to stay focused. For Chris Lunt, it’s a squat red sphere he keeps on his desk, painted to depict the furrowed brow of Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism — a Daruma do... |
| Jan 4, 2021 | The 16 power players at Google Health shaping the tech giant's secretive healthcare business | Google; Geisinger Health; Samantha Lee/Business Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Google is going deeper into the healthcare industry after a past effort flopped.
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| Jun 16, 2020 | NIH expands its COVID-19 research in underrepresented communities | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Mar 3, 2020 | Precision medicine: course correction urgently needed | An undeclared civil war is breaking out in biomedicine. On one side is precision medicine, with its emphasis on tailoring treatments to ever-narrower groups of patients. On the other side is population health, which emphasizes predominantly... |
| Jan 14, 2020 | Innovation in biotech R&D: New resources offer new hope | Link to full Op Ed on STAT NEWS
Public optimism about American health care seems in short supply if you read the news, which is dominated by coverage of partisan fights over the Affordable Care Act and the continuing crisis of opioid addic... |
| Jan 14, 2020 | Innovation in biotech R&D: New resources offer new hope | Public optimism about American health care seems in short supply if you read the news, which is dominated by coverage of partisan fights over the Affordable Care Act and the continuing crisis of opioid addiction. But innovation in the life ... |
| Aug 25, 2019 | Here's what Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and 52 other successful people ask job candidates during interviews | Elon Musk joined Joe Rogan for an interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience" where he smoked pot on camera.
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Some interview questions are designed to trick you, while others are fairly straightforward.
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| Aug 23, 2019 | Community engagement is key to clinical trial recruitment and diversity | Clinical trials in the United States have been plagued for years by two well-known problems: They don’t recruit enough people and they fail to reflect the diversity of our nation.
The good news is that solving the diversity problem can reso... |
| Mar 29, 2019 | Disease Prediction Scores Based on DNA Have a Racial Bias, Study Finds | Scores for predicting disease risk based on genetics are on average almost five times less accurate for people of African ancestry, two times less accurate for East Asians, and 1.6 times less accurate for Hispanic or Latino Americans, compa... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | Lack of diversity hinders genetic studies. We can change that | As a geneticist, I feel fortunate to live in the post-genomic era. The sequencing of the human genome has made it possible to make advances in understanding human genetics at an unprecedented pace. Genetic research is changing our understan... |
| Dec 17, 2018 | Precision Medicine: the next revolution in healthcare | Precision Medicine: the next revolution in healthcare
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In recent years, we have witnessed a remarkable healthcare revolution. Thanks to advances in genetic analysis, molecular biology and cell science, we now know more about the h... |
| Sep 5, 2018 | All study participants have a right to know their own results. My lab has been doing that for years | For less than $100 and a sample of spit, you can learn about your genes, your disease susceptibility, and your ethnic heritage. Wearable sensors report on your sleep patterns, your heart rate, and what air pollutants are nearby. With Detox ... |
| Jul 26, 2018 | A Major Drug Company Now Has Access to 23andMe’s Genetic Data. Should You Be Concerned? | Consumer genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Wednesday that GlaxoSmithKline purchased a $300 million stake in the company, allowing the pharmaceutical giant to use 23andMe’s trove of genetic data to develop new drugs — and raising ... |
| Jun 13, 2018 | I handed over my genetic data to the NIH. Here’s why you should, too | The National Institutes of Health recently launched the All of Us Research Program to create one of the largest, richest public resources for biomedical research in human history. Its mission is to accelerate medical breakthroughs that pers... |
| May 30, 2018 | DNA donors must demand stronger protection for genetic privacy | The National Institutes of Health wants your DNA, and the DNA of 1 million other Americans, for an ambitious project called All of Us. Its goal — to “uncover paths toward delivering precision medicine” — is a good one. But until it can safe... |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Congress approves government spending bill with increased FDA funding | The Senate early Friday followed the House’s lead early Friday to pass the $1.3 trillion spending bill to fund the government through 30 September.
The White House had indicated that President Donald Trump supports the bi... |
| Nov 13, 2017 | How can biotech companies avoid losing public’s trust? | While biotech doesn’t share the same disdain as Big Pharma, Jim Kozubek, author of “Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9,” believes citizens are increasingly backing away from the cutting-edge of genomic science.
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| Nov 7, 2017 | The government is handing out 10,000 Fitbits to research precision medicine | In his 2015 State of the Union, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative — a massive research project designed to gain more insight into how we live with and treat various diseases. Last year, the National Institutes of H... |
| Jul 19, 2017 | ‘Precision Education’ Hopes to Apply Big Data to Lift Diverse Student Groups | Professors at National University are spending the summer slicing their courses into smaller and smaller pieces, and looking for as many ways to explain each concept as they can. The idea is to replace one-size-fits-all lectures with a rang... |
| Jun 19, 2017 | ‘Human Project’ study will ask 10,000 to share life’s data | NEW YORK — Wanted: 10,000 New Yorkers interested in advancing science by sharing a trove of personal information, from cellphone locations and credit-card swipes to blood samples and life-changing events. For 20 years.
Researchers are geari... |
| The Code is a three-part video series investigating the roots of today’s most promising genetic technologies | Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. And those who do not remember the sometimes irrational exuberance around past advances in biomedicine may be doomed to buy into the hype around today’s. From curing Alzheimer’s and... |
| How can biotech companies avoid losing public’s trust? | We all know Big Pharma doesn’t have the greatest public image. It came second to last in a 2016 Gallup Poll that surveyed the public’s perception of 25 business sectors. Even the legal field and the oil and gas industry trumped it; only the... |
| How advanced platforms for informed consent can reinforce trust in clinical trials, improve compliance | Conducting a successful clinical trial depends on well-designed patient recruitment procedures and retaining the research participants until the completion of the study.
The participants must receive information regarding the study and volu... |
| Cancer doc: To boost minority participation, we have fliers in our clinic saying “Ask me about a clinical trial” | To drive diverse participation in precision medicine efforts, providers and patient advocacy groups must identify and break down the barriers that exclude minority communities — beginning with the lack of awareness.
Actively encouraging min... |
