25 de maig 2018

The p53 nightmare

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p53 and Me This week you'll find a short piece in NEJM , a story written by a physician on how detecting a genetic p53 mutation change...
23 de maig 2018

The spanish flu, a century later

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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World Laura Spinney has made a great job with her latest book " The Pale ...
22 de maig 2018

Theranos: a massive fraud and epic failure

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The Theranos deception on CBS News 60 Minutes
17 de maig 2018

The weirdest health financing system of the world (2)

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Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2017 Global Monitoring Report If I had to summarise the best outcome of health policy in the last cent...
13 de maig 2018

Measuring morbidity in large populations

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MODELIZACIÓN ECONÓMICA DEL AJUSTE POR RIESGO DEL GASTO SANITARIO PER CÁPITA SEGÚN MORBILIDAD EN LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA There is a unique ...
11 de maig 2018

Changing the production function of diagnostic tests

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Next-generation diagnostics with CRISPR Last week while reading Science I noticed a short and crucial article . Up to now CRISPR technolog...
08 de maig 2018

Cost-effectiveness of genome sequencing (2)

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Application of next-generation sequencing to improve cancer management: A review of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness If y...
06 de maig 2018

Cost-effectiveness of genome sequencing

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Are whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing approaches cost-effective? A systematic review of the literature It is quite difficult to talk...
05 de maig 2018

Diagnosing diseases and editing genes

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CRISPR: The gene-editing tool revolutionizing biomedical research The WIRED Guide to Crispr A New Startup Wants to Use Crispr to Diagnose ...
02 de maig 2018

Mental health: the problem and what can be done

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THRIVE: How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money I have to recognise it. Mental health is a difficult issue, and all...
30 d’abril 2018

Medicine as a data science (2)

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The Evolution of Patient Diagnosis: From Art to Digital Data-Driven Science Currently medical diagnosis is driven by a standard way to pro...
24 d’abril 2018

Equity and QALYs, terra ignota

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Incorporating equity in economic evaluations: a multi-attribute equity state approach Ptolemy used the term terra ignota for regions that ...
19 d’abril 2018

Man and machine, sharing the decision making effort

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Big Data and Machine Learning in Health Care From JAMA article It is perhaps more useful to imagine an algorithm as existing along a...
18 d’abril 2018

The meta-informational challenge of molecular data

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The future of DNA sequencing Where does DNA sequencing goes from here?. Nowadays, this is an appropriate question to pose.  The answer app...