Category Archives: Healthcare
All about aging (or not)
Image by mndoci via FlickrI have often wondered about our obsession with aging, from the need to use skin products to develop drugs and vitamins that prevent aging. I am actually quite fine with research targeted at understanding the process of aging, since it’s one of those natural processes that we would like to [...]
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Another reason pharmacovigilance is required
Image via WikipediaI am not a lawyer, and while I have some opinions and some knowledge of FDA guidelines, I want to use the current pharma story du jour to highlight something that we need to do.
I am sure anyone who listened to NPR today heard about Wyeth’s anti-nausea drug, Phenergan. To cut a [...]
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Your personal health: Free means education
One more post today. Russ Altman talks about how the cost of genotyping is asymptoting to free
(eerie parallels to Chris Anderson’s Free). The post comes on the heels of the launch of Complete Genomics and that they will enable a $5000 genome in 2010.
But that’s not the part that I [...]
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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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Matchmaking clinical trials style