I recently heard about an organization called WBL, or Women Business leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation. It was founded in 2001 to provide its members with help to improve their businesses and grow professionally. The part I find especially interesting is the help that WBL offers to senior level executives [...]
I can hardly believe 2009 is almost over. It’s time to start looking ahead to 2010 trends.
I caught this article on Pharmaceutical-ManufacturingNews.com, IMS Forecasts Global Pharmaceutical Market Growth Of 4 – 6% In 2010. IMS Health forecasts 4-6% growth in 2010, and 4-7% through 2013.
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Curiosity question: do the current DTC genomics companies report out copy number variations (CNVs) to their customers? Are any of their technologies unable to read these? Clearly Knome (or Illumina, which isn’t DTC but sort of competing with them) should be able to get this info from the shotgun sequencing. But what [...]
One of the many interesting ASHG tidbits from the Twitter feed is a comment from “suganthibala” which I’ll quote in full
On average we each are missing 123 kb. homozygously. An incomplete genome is the norm. What a goofy species we are.
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I’m horribly remiss in tracking the CNV literature, but this comment makes me wonder whether [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a Boston hospital that had shut down employee access to various social media sites and offered my view that it was not a productive thing to do. Here’s a similar view from Socialnomics. The site notes that only 11% of companies do not put some [...]
Wow! What a lightning-rod this can become. Lifestyle choices and health conditions driving potential increases in health insurance coverage costs.
Watch this MSNBC news video, as it discusses North Carolina’s intention to make state workers who are morbidly obese, pay more for their health insurance, Should weight impact your health costs?
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I’ve received a lovely collection of eight faux marriage certificates from Guild Member Des Gander as a result of his Marriage Challenge for the Honiton Registration District in Devon. The Cruwys marriages all relate to the Mariansleigh tree, and I have passed on copies to the relevant researchers.
Rather fortuitously Jan Ennis in New Zealand has [...]
H1N1 Fraudulent Products
This FDA widget helps you find out if a product you’re interested in is legitimate or a fake.
I commute on public transportation every day. We’re in the heighth of cold and flu season. I’m not likely to try any of these products, but if you’re interested, check them out before you buy [...]
I’ve been completely slacking on completing my self-imposed series on how second generation sequencing (I’m finally trying to kick the “next gen” term) might reshape the physical mapping of genomes. It hasn’t been that my brain has been ignoring the topic, but somehow I’ve not extracted the thoughts through my fingertips. And I’ve [...]
E-patient Dave informs me of a new venture, the Journal of Participatory Medicine, a peer-reviewed open access journal. It is the product of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Here’s the lead-in to issue #1, along with other material from the Society:
Our mission is to transform the culture of medicine to be more participatory. [...]