Long before you ever have a chance to balk at prescription drug prices, the companies that make the medicine rack up billion-dollar tabs from research, ...
"Machine learning algorithms could predict breast cancer treatment responses" #machinelearning #medicine http://www.gizmag.com/machine-learning-predicts-breast-cancer-treatment-responses/39510/
RT @S_Rabinovitch: Top medical study on heart attacks in marathons: 1:185,000 runners http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1106468
Beijing Marathon: 1:5000 http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1859890/six-runners-and-race-official-suffer-heart-attacks-during-beijing
How to Study 1 Million Patients' Medical Charts http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-study-1-million-patients-medical-charts/ #bigdata #mhealth
Michel Lavache is a modern-day traveling medicine man, but instead of curing bodily ills, he fixes something that’s arguably even more precious in our ...
RT @MichaelMandel: Japan leaps ahead in regenerative medicine, with faster approval process based on safety and probable efficacy http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/03/national/science-health/regenerative-medicine-get-boost-deregulation-japan/#.VfX5uWSqqko @PPI
A comprehensive analysis of the use of psychedelics for anxiety, PTSD, and addiction shows serious medical potential for the drugs. (via The Daily Beast)
RT @AndreaKuszewski: Across much of US, a serious shortage of psychiatrists http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-09-shortage-psychiatrists_1.html via @medical_xpress
RT @dinapomeranz: A Ghanaian entrepreneur thinks he has the answer to Africa’s fake medicine problem
cc @yanagiz https://twitter.com/business/status/627283135026307073
RT @Robert_Graboyes: SMARTPHONE-AUGMENTED STETHOSCOPES/ Another reason smartphones will augment the practice of medicine. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/bringing-the-stethoscope-into-the-smartphone-era/ HT @AdamThierer
Genetic data in medical records, and greater patient involvement: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-of-tomorrow/articles/2015/07/23/new-paper-explores-how-precision-medicine-can-flourish
#precisionmedicine #bigdata
#Biostatistics #Bioethics #Publication #Policy in the Age of #BigData #DavidResnik #socialmedia #clinical #medical https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biostatistics-bioethics-publication-policy-age-big-data-kanik-phd
#Biostatistics, #Bioethics & #Publication #Policy in the Age of #BigData” - #MedicReS #NewYork #theLancet https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biostatistics-bioethics-publication-policy-age-big-data-kanik-phd
"Should we do an article on what it’s like to be a medical resident? How about working in the US military?" http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2015/08/17/what-to-make-of-amazons-work-practices/
IBM Plans to Teach Watson How to Sift Through Medical Images and Diagnose Diseases http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540141/why-ibm-just-bought-billions-of-medical-images-for-watson-to-look-at/ >@TechReview
RT @TomChivers: Powerful piece by an oncologist on how alternative-medicine quackery kills cancer patients http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/03/what-do-doctors-say-to-alternative-therapists-when-a-patient-dies-nothing-we-never-talk?CMP=soc_3156
RT @SuB8u: This is a nice way to put it - "The first 3D-printed pill opens up a world of downloadable medicine".
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/aug/05/the-first-3d-printed-pill-opens-up-a-world-of-downloadable-medicine
RT @LaMishaHill: "In 1978, there were 1,410 black male applicants to medical school, and in 2014, there were just 1,337". https://twitter.com/UCSFMedicine/status/627230990340001792
RT @NinjaEconomics: A VC who has met his cleaning lady three times paid for her medical bills when he found out she has cancer. https://medium.com/p/d5ce71c39bc5
