Category Archives: Your personal health
Your personal health: My fair PHR
Image via WikipediaRecent visits to various medical facilities have been accompanied by filling up a lot of long forms, essentially filling up the same information. It is highly inefficient, and frankly a waste of time, especially if you have to fill up a form “if anything has changed since your last visit”. Talk [...]
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Your personal health: 23andme v2
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Did 23andme just cut prices?
Update: Apparently they did
A new blog post suggests that they’ve dropped prices to $399 (unless I am being completely dense and that’s an upsell). That information is part of the launch of 23andme v2.
With the introduction of v2, our next-generation analytical platform, 23andMe [...]
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Your personal health: Personal genetics as a vehicle for increased awareness
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So one thing I learned from having my DNA sequenced is that very few diseases have a single point genetic basis
Those are words from a blog post by Kevin Kelly on the first 23andme User Group Meeting. Now Kevin is a knowledgable person, more so than most. Events such as this [...]
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Your SNPs are your information
A quick follow up to my previous post. Reading Rob Carlson’s wonderfully written post on the C&Ds sent out by the California Department of Public Health to 13 consumer genetics companies got me thinking. He writes
There appears to be some tension between the interpretation of tests ordered for diagnostic purposes, which probably should [...]
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Your personal health: Free means education