Interestingly that's about the same as medical research overall. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/ https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/775780831050817537
RT @xeni: I still have medical slides of my tumor tissue. Would be interesting to know if I coulda avoided chemo, so wild. https://twitter.com/xeni/status/768635590052982784
"A well-known frustration in the medical community: [blood] lab results have a lot of variability." http://www.businessinsider.com/a-doctor-weighs-in-on-theranos-2016-7
RT @crampell: In 2013, US spent more on mental disorders than on any other medical condition. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2016/05/13/hlthaff.2015.1659
RT @BBCLeishaChi: Wow. Scientists have built world’s tiniest engine which could one day drive medical nano-robots through the body http://on.ft.com/1TGr6Y4
RT @AndreaKuszewski: Medical community is fighting a new germ: celebrities (not so new, actually) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-03-medical-germ-celebrities.html via @medical_xpress
RT @petersims: Wow. "Nearly all of our medical research is wrong" Danielle Teller. Truth tell. @astroteller @pmarca @Bill_George http://qz.com/603356/why-scientific-studies-cant-be-reproduced/
RT @petersims: Wow. "Nearly all of our medical research is wrong" Danielle Teller. Truth tell. @astroteller @pmarca @Bill_George http://qz.com/603356/why-scientific-studies-cant-be-reproduced/
RT @BaldingsWorld: Patients shouldn't beat up doctors, but medical care in rural Africa is better than most of China. There's a reason https://twitter.com/wangxiangweihk/status/678892013710798849
"More hospitals in an area does increase the utilization of medical resources. It does not improve health outcomes." http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/more-hospital-access-does-not-equal-more-health/
RT @stuartpstevens: Did a real doctor write this Trump report? That's some medical research he put into it. https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/676604087090065408
RT @ExumAM: God bless these doctors and what they're doing for severely maimed veterans. Medical science is freaking incredible. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/health/penis-transplants-being-planned-to-heal-troops-hidden-wounds.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
RT @calestous: A scientific conference has endorsed editing of human #genome for medical research http://www.nature.com/news/gene-editing-summit-supports-some-research-in-human-embryos-1.18947
RT @Robert_Graboyes: Smartphone: may end up being the most important medical device in human history. https://twitter.com/sub8u/status/671896439056818177
US spends ~$3T per year on health care; loses ~$3T per year in economic terms from deaths caused by medical errors. http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-many-deaths-from-mistakes-in-us.html
"~350,000 Americans die each year due to medical treatment errors, more than all US combat deaths in World War II." http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-many-deaths-from-mistakes-in-us.html
RT @M_C_Klein: "informed medical opinion seems to be that it is perfectly OK to continue to consume bacon in moderation" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e225e862-7ca3-11e5-98fb-5a6d4728f74e.html
RT @_sunilrawat: Imagine what this will do for data communication speeds, medical science, manufacturing. MIT's trillion fps camera http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/
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
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
RT @kimmaicutler: I've seen the blockchain used to store medical records, land ownership, copyright for artists. What have you seen? https://twitter.com/SuB8u/status/606898342136807425
Excellent story about transformative medical research underway at Harvard's engineering department in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/print-thyself
GO RON!! "Ron Conway donating $40M for the new outpatient medical building at the UCSF Medical Center." http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ron-Conway-donates-40-million-to-new-UCSF-6007136.php
RT @jhagel: Fertile ground for further investigation - research into "male idiot theory" published in the British Medical Journal http://bit.ly/177ETns
RT @cadwego: Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/19/half-of-dr-ozs-medical-advice-is-baseless-or-wrong-study-says/
RT @SandyHendry: British Medical Journal asks whether low-fat products/diets are food industry's attempt at mass murder.
http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/349/bmj.g7654.full.pdf
RT @mhallsworth: New study shows the power of text messages to improve medical adherence http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141205142424.htm?utm_source=feedburner #behaviourchange
RT @DLeonhardt: What seems to be behind the sharp slowdown in health costs? A changing medical system. @sangerkatz: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/upshot/good-news-inside-the-health-spending-numbers.html
