Category Archives: Genetic Medicine

Molecular Diagnostics R

Dr Martin Crockard, a molecular diagnostics R

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Molecular Diagnostics R

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Genomics and Personalized Medicine Breakthroughs

bit.ly Human genome mapping is now enabling a breakthrough in medical innovation -- personalized medicine.

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Genomics and Personalized Medicine Breakthroughs

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Mid-Market Innovation: Analytics Tames Genetic Modeling’s Data Explosion

Genetic modeling is changing the face of medicine, and Coriell Institute for Medical Research is helping to lead this transformation. Scott Megill, CIO of the nonprofit research organization, discusses the role of business analytics and business process management in transforming the efficiency of this complex and highly technical field. Coriell houses the Coriell Biobank, which plays a vital role in modern biomedical research by maintaining the world's most diverse collection of biological resources

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Ayurveda

Dr tanmay goswami

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Back again, 23andMe still $hits the bed with their reports

In case you haven't noticed. I dropped off the blog radar for a while. I had some growing to do of the practice and some streamlining. I read Daniel Vorhaus JD's post with great interest this week. It describes clinical utility of 23andMe testing......

The one thing I haven't stopped doing is counselling patients on DTC Genomic reports.

Just yesterday I was consulting a very nice patient. They told me they just had to speak with a doctor because the report indicated that they were at increased risk of stomach and esophageal cancer. They had been up for several nights reading about it. Further, when brought to their PMD, the PMD smiled and didn't offer up any advice.

Well, first let me preface by saying, 23andMe's SNPs which they list 4 huge freaking stars of "CON"fidence for, on Esophageal and Stomach Cancer risk, while BTFW only ranking studies on Han Chinese. And only 2 studies at that.......

This report had this patient seriously concerned. Until of course I took a G-D Damn pedigree and found out they had ZERO, I repeat ZERO Asian ancestry/ethnicity, let alone Han Chinese....

The risk report from 23andSerge listed them as high risk. How in the world did that work?

(BTW, if you don't believe me, just ask and I will send you the time stamped pdfs, with name redacted of course)

You know why that worked? Because the brainchildren at the Google owned company forgot to put an ethnicity/ancestry filter on their reports. Instead they just felt that an asterisk would work just fine.....

Well Guess what 23andMe, you haven't changed at all. Even after the FDA got on your A$$. Your reports still are misleading and are causing undue angst.

Lucky for you, Myself and Dr Lubin are around to pick up after your mess......

Can you see why someone needs to look at and police these reports? This poor patient had serious concerns and when brought to a clinician who couldn't understand the SNP studies could end up with not needed endoscopies which would put the patient at risk. Primarily due to physician malpractice avoidance behavior?

Don't think that hasn't happened? Think Again.

The Sherpa Says: I am back again at it because clearly the millionaires with a penchant for DNA peddling and CPU coding can not get this right......Clearly a #FAIL

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Law of the land can help or destroy the Pharmacovigilance system

U.S. Supreme Court, ruling allows shareholders to sue Pharma and biotechnology companies for failing to report adverse drug events/ dangerous side effects.

Maker of homeopathic remedies Matrixx Initiatives, was sued by investors once it came to know their marketed nasal spray linked to a string of instances in which people using the treatment lost their sense of smell. The adverse events were reported back to the company by several medical professionals and patients, but never amounted to a statistically significant group. Matrixx argued it wasn’t responsible for reporting scattered and unreliable anecdotal evidence of adverse events. But the supremed court said No

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-22/drugmaker-investor-lawsuits-backed-by-u-s-supreme-court-4-.html

Compare that to the Indian Law System

Madras High Court in India allowed a stay on immediate withdrawal of drugs banned due to Severe Side Effects. The pediatric doses of pain reliever nimesulide and anti-cold medicine phenylpropanolamine banned in market due to harmful side effects, Indian Drugs Manufacturers Association & Confederation of Indian Pharmaceutical Industries put revenue loss to industry above safety of patients & managed to get a reversal of the ban.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/hc-stayimmediate-withdrawalbanned-drugs/429458/