26 de març 2014

Beware of recreational WGS

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Clinical Interpretation and Implications of Whole-Genome Sequencing If some weeks ago I explained the false advertisement case on nutrigen...
25 de març 2014

The roots of new governance

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Governance in healthcare institutions As you know, in this blog I quote canadians in many respects. Their " Board of Directors Govern...
24 de març 2014

Finding consensus in health policy

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One of the key features of successful health systems is to achieve wide consensus at a societal level. Citizens have to share common values...
20 de març 2014

The seed of efficient genomic sequencing

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Technology: The $1,000 genome Imagine for a moment that you have back ten years, and as the health research responsible in the government ...
19 de març 2014

Medtech on the profitable road

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The 2013 Medtech Value Creators Report Finding Sustainable Value in a Changing Market Quick numbers from US stock exchange (2009-2013) f...
18 de març 2014

Futility labeling

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Choosing Wisely — The Politics and Economics of Labeling Low-Value Services As far as the evidence on effectiveness is uncertain in some c...
16 de març 2014

Keep on improving

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On the improvement of blood sample collection at clinical laboratories Efficiency in healthcare management comes as the result of many de...
13 de març 2014

Commercialism in health and medicine

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Buying Health: The Costs of Commercialism and an Alternative Philosophy There are only three topics of health policy in the newspapers ( u...
12 de març 2014

Against patents, again

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Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover Of Life Itself – And The Consequences For Your Health And Our Medical Future I've ...
10 de març 2014

Health impact of sugar-sweetened beverages taxation

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Averting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in India through Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation: An Economic-Epidemiologic Modeling Study Clever p...
07 de març 2014

Cost-effectiveness with uncertain effectiveness

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Cost-effectiveness of a gene expression score and myocardial perfusion imaging for diagnosis of coronary artery disease Gene expression...
05 de març 2014

When asking your physician is not enough

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23andMe and the FDA Some weeks ago I explained the FDA "closure" of DTC genetic testing business. NEJM analyses with detail th...
04 de març 2014

Let's get fit, not fat

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Aportaciones de la economía del comportamiento en política sanitaria: Algunas notas en torno al ejemplo de la obesidad  The influence of ob...
28 de febrer 2014

Our irrational behaviour

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The Behavioral Economics of Health and Health Care Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why...