Posts Tagged ‘personalized-medicine’
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 MoreMarch/ April Update: Brain Health Status Quo No Longer An Option
The 2011 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (March 30th — April 1st) gathered more than 260 research and industry leaders from 16 countries for 3 days to discuss the changing landscape of Brain Health and Cognitive Fitness. It was a great success! Find the key lessons and take-home points from the Summit in these 2 articles by…
Read More36-Hour Offer: Integrative Neuroscience, Personalized Medicine and the 2011 SharpBrains Summit
An impressive recent reference book on the future of brain care is Integrative Neuroscience and Personalized Medicine, edited by Evian Gordon and Stephen H. Koslow (Oxford University Press; $89.95). Book description: This book takes an in depth and hard look at the current status and future direction of treatment predictive markers in Personalized Medicine for…
Read MoreMetaCarnival: A Carnival of Blog Carnivals
If you are a blogger or read blogs often, you know that there are a good number of excellent blog carnivals focused on specific themes. If you are interested in medicine, you know what carnival to visit. Education, the same. Biology, neuroscience, nursing, birds, aging, philosophy…a variety of topics are very well covered in the…
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