By Fran Smith, National Geographic | January 2019 TWELVE YEARS AFTER Teresa McKeown beat stage 3 breast cancer with a brutal regimen of chemotherapy and a double mastectomy, the disease returned, more aggressively than before. This time chemotherapy failed. Day after day, she sat in a chair in her living room, too sick to move. She [...]
By Jessica Kent, Health IT Analytics | December 7, 2018 The FDA has formally recognized a public database containing genomic information, a significant step forward in driving the development of precision medicine and novel diagnostic technologies. The agency is recognizing the genetic variant information in the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) consortium’s ClinGen Expert Curated Human Genetic Data, [...]
By Jessica Kent, Health IT Analytics | November 2, 2018 With more than $3 million in funding, the Center will use big data analytics to advance precision medicine worldwide. Duke University Pratt School of Engineering has established a new big data analytics center that will support global research to advance [...]
The Medical Futurist | October 20, 2018 By 2025, between 100 million and 2 billion human genomes will have been sequenced, researchers said. What do medical research, companies or governments do with such an incredible amount of data? How could genomics bring DNA-based targeted treatments, personalized drugs, and individualized clinical [...]
By Mike Miliard, HealthcareIT News | October 2, 2018 A 16-year-old high school student built a website around public data from the NIH ClinVar archive, helping clinicians advance genomic treatments, and says similar innovations depend on more freely-available data. When Justin Aronson takes the stage at the HIMSS Big Data [...]
By Jennifer Bresnick, HealthIT Analytics | September 26, 2018 Healthcare consumers are cautious but optimistic that emerging strategies like artificial intelligence and advanced genetic testing can lead to better care for cancer, according to a new survey from McKesson and Ipsos. The poll of more than 2000 individuals found that [...]
