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Case study: Scripps offers personalized medicine for anti-platelet therapy
In this publication, we've been writing for years about the promise of "personalized medicine," or treatments that use genetic information to offer therapies to patients most likely to respond. U.S.... Read more...
VT may toughen pharma regulations; Study says tight privacy laws slow EMR adoption;
> Vermont already requires drugmakers to list payments made to physicians, by dollar amounts. Now, lawmakers are looking to close a loophole that allows pharmas to keep some payments private by... Read more...
Study: Genetic testing could save millions on cancer care
With cancer treatments boasting staggeringly high pricetags, there's good reason to give such drugs only to patients who can benefit from them. Increasingly, however, it's looking like genetic... Read more...
Personalized medicine offers hope, but not today
Right now, the pharmaceutical industry counts on a time-honored practice to keep its coffers full. As things stand, if clinical testing shows that a drug is effective for some subjects with a given... Read more...
HHS releases report on personalized medicine
HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt has released a second report on the movement known as "personalized medicine," an effort to develop patient-specific treatments based on advances in scientific... Read more...
Wisconsin plans genomics initiative
Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle (D) has announced that several prominent medical programs in the state are launching a collaborative research effort in the form of the Wisconsin Genomics Initiative. The... Read more...
