Folic acid: The risk of modular thinking in an interdependent situation
Randomized controlled trials fail us in ways we don’t collectively realize. Folic acid supplementation is a striking example of how they do. But there is a better way.
Precision Medicine
Randomized controlled trials fail us in ways we don’t collectively realize. Folic acid supplementation is a striking example of how they do. But there is a better way.
Sept 22, 2022
Precision Medicine
Biomarkers play an integral role in improving healthcare, and researchers at the cutting edge of medicine are demanding more of them.
Nov 17, 2017
How is precision medicine leading the way in efforts to combat some of our most perplexing diseases, and what does progress along these fronts look like?
Oct 16, 2017
By gaming the Orphan Drug Act, drugmakers end up undermining precision medicine efforts nationwide. How can we limit the program's lucrative benefits to only those drugs that are truly innovative?
Feb 23, 2017
Investors' preference for short-term, high ROI and low-risk investment targets creates a dilemma. But, using the lens of Jobs to Be Done, there are at least two ways to overcome this.
Feb 2, 2017
What should be on Rep. Tom Price's agenda as the incoming Secretary of HHS? Fixing the ACA is only a small part of the issues to be addressed. Spencer Nam provides the full list.
Jan 12, 2017
Recent advances in supercomputing and artificial intelligence, or AI, have raised hopes of delivering more precise and personalized healthcare services to people.
Sept 29, 2016
Last year, President Obama proposed an outline for the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), with the intention of empowering patients, researchers, and healthcare providers to work together […]
Apr 15, 2016
The term precision medicine is exploding in popularity (and unfortunately ambiguity) in the healthcare community. But, at its simplest, precision medicine is the effective cure […]
Jan 28, 2016
Consider this: You’re a patient with the symptoms of early stage coronary heart disease (CHD). You visit your doctor for a checkup and, staring at the […]
Sept 9, 2015