May 11th, 2015
Prominent Harvard Cardiologist Moves to Google X to Head Large Study
Larry Husten, PHD
Here’s a clear sign of the ascending role of digital/precision/personalized medicine: a prominent cardiologist has left a top academic and clinical position in Boston to run a large, innovative study in Silicon Valley. Jessica Mega was widely perceived as a rising star at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has now joined Google X, Google’s research arm, […]
May 7th, 2015
Advocates Say Precision Medicine Could Lead to Enormous Benefits
Larry Husten, PHD
Personalized and precision medicine (PPM) could deliver hundreds of billions of dollars worth of improved health in the next 50 years in the United States, writes Victor Dzau, the new president of the Institute of Medicine, and coauthors in a Viewpoint published in the Lancet. The authors used a health simulation model to estimate the effect of […]
April 9th, 2015
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: April 9th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include the PROMISE trial, the efficacy of folic acid therapy in primary prevention of stroke among patients with hypertension in China, and more.
January 27th, 2015
Can Precision Medicine Do Better Than Precision Weather?
Larry Husten, PHD
Larry Husten asks the question, “Is the human body simpler than the weather?”
NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Cardiology Articles- Anticoagulation in Patients with Cancer-Associated Pulmonary Embolism: How Long is Long Enough?
- Spironolactone Use After Percutaneous Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction
- CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing for Transthyretin Cardiomyopathy
- Does Colchicine Reduce Cardiac Events After Myocardial Infarction?
- First-Line Therapy for Ventricular Tachycardia After MI: What's the Best Approach?