Posts Tagged ‘health care’
New Series on Personalized Medicine and the Brain (PMWC 2012)
“On average, the medications prescribed for brain-related conditions benefit approximately 50% of patients. But which 50%?.” “We need unambiguous biomarkers that are clinically relevant and scalable at reasonable cost. They already exist in Cancer. But they do not yet exist in the Brain.” What may change that?
Read MoreImproving Brain Health Outcomes with Tech, Incentives and Comparative Effectiveness Research
Malpractice Methodology (New York Times OpEd by Peter Orszag) Right now, health care is more evidence-free than you might think. And even where evidence-based clinical guidelines exist, research suggests that doctors follow them only about half of the time. One estimate suggests that it takes 17 years on average to incorporate new research findings into…
Read MoreGrand Rounds: 22 Health and Medicine Questions and Answers
Welcome to Grand Rounds, the weekly collection of best health and medical blog posts. This week we invite you to enjoy a broad range of insights, tips, and first-hand stories, presented as a Q&A conversation with bloggers willing to answer, below, a total of 22 good questions. On Health and Medicine What can one-word prescriptions…
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