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July 2009
July 1 Study Suggests Online Genetic Test May Help Smokers Quit
July 1 The Case for Personalized Medicine
July 1 Healthcare Reform: What’s at Stake for Labs?
July 1 High Hopes for a New Kind of Gene
June 2009
June 30 HHS Report Urges Personalized Medicine in CER
June 30 Denver's Rose Center First In State to Offer Genetic Test
June 30 Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson: Taking Cancer's Genetic Measure
June 30 Team IDs Copy Number Changes In AML Genomes
June 30 Elizabeth Blackburn: Ordering Cancer Cells to Curl Up and Die
June 30 Panel Suggests U.S. Medical Priorities
June 30 Cost-Effectiveness of Cancer Drugs Is Questioned
June 29 BloodCenter develops new test to fight leukemia
June 29 Discovery Points to Regulation of Calcium Metabolism
June 29 Your Genes Aren’t Covered for That
June 27 A Doctor’s Vision of the Future of Medicine
June 27 The Gene Puzzle
June 26 VICC research efforts highlighted at annual cancer conference
June 25 Protein Biomarker May Lead to Urine-based Test for Childhood Appendicitis
June 24 Genetic Alliance Asks FDA for Public Genetic Test Registry
June 24 New cancer drug 'shows promise'
June 24 Team Finds New Cancer Gene Fusions Using Paired End Sequencing
June 24 Health Care: A Cost-Saving Myth
June 24 Privacy Groups Challenge Calif. Bill Pushing Regulatory Exemptions for 'Post-CLIA Bioinformatics Services'
June 24 For Kids With Leukemia, Radiation May Be Safe to Skip
June 23 LabCorp to Acquire Monogram Biosciences for $107M
June 23 Talking Personal Genomics
June 23 Viollier to Offer Epigenomics' Colorectal Cancer Test
June 23 New Molecular Test for Treatment of Colon Cancer
June 23 DNA Jettisoned From Lamprey Genome During Development
June 23 Talking Personal Genomics
June 22 Researchers Find Genetic Markers to Help Fight Diabetes
June 22 Among Many Peoples, Little Genomic Variety
June 20 Nobel laureate calls for more research in personalised medicine
June 19 Novartis Scores Big Hit on Small Market With Gene-Based Medicine
June 19 An Orchestra In Need Of A Conductor
June 19 A Genetic Link Between Anorexia and Autism?
June 19 IU Licenses Breast Cancer Biomarker to Clarient
June 18 New Comparative Effectiveness Bill Enhances Dx, Genomics Focus
June 18 Dutch-US Research Team IDs Putative Protein Profile of Tamoxifen Resistance in Breast Cancer
June 18 TGen's Center for Proteomics Set to Open in August as Part of Initiative to Hasten Personalized Medicine
June 17 CDC Offers Guidelines for Molecular Genetic Testing
June 17 Study: 'Depression Gene' Doesn't Predict the Blues
June 17 Physician Use of AJCC TNM Staging
June 17 Q&A: Boyd Discusses How Fox Chase Plans to 'Operationalize' Personalized Medicine
June 17 FDA Updates Plavix Label with PGx Data, but Does Not Provide Dosing Recommendations
June 16 Francis Collins "upbeat" about impact of common disease genetics
June 16 Obama's Health Plan: What Matters the Most is Missing
June 16 Obama Assures AMA That CER Will Offer Information, Not “Dictate” Medical Choices (subscription required)
June 16 The Behavior Gap
June 16 TGen and USC researchers find genetic markers to help fight diabetes
June 16 Hope for test to measure ageing
June 16 Illumina Launches Personal Genome-Sequencing Service Using Genome Analyzer II
June 14 Key Gene Identified in Deadliest Breast Cancer
June 14 New era of gene-based personalized medicine dawning
June 13 An Interview With Henry Wagner, M.D.
June 12 How Personalized Medicine Is Transforming Healthcare
June 12 Vancouver doctors, scientists recognized for breakthrough cancer discovery
June 12 Mass. biotechs bet on personalized medicine
June 11 Life sciences: One size does not fit all
June 11 DNA key to personalized medicine
June 10 Senate Legislation Would Streamline Complex Test Billing
June 8 New sensor to speed genome sequencing
June 6 Medicine as business is bad for patients and doctors
May 2009
May 31 Cancer Drugs: Herceptin News and More
May 28 The Next Big Thing: Personalized Medicine
May 27 What's the Point in Patenting Genes?
May 27 Univ. North Carolina, IBM Team Up For Research, Personalized Care
May 26 The FDA as a Public Health Agency
May 26 Is Personalized Medicine Making Major Strides or Taking Baby Steps?
May 21 The Future of Healthcare: Personalized Medicine
May 17 Time is key in Alzheimer’s research
May 15 New Test Aids Prognosis for Colon-Cancer Patients
May 13 Do DNA patents spur science or stifle it? Both
May 8 Life Science Technologies: Molecular Diagnostics: Personalizing Personalized Medicine
May 7 NEJM Articles Address Comparative-Effectiveness Research
May 5 Report: Financial Crisis could reshape biotech
May 5 CMS Rejects Medicare Payment for Genetic-Based Warfarin Dosing
April 2009
April 29 DNA Barcoding Employed In Effort to Halt Tropical Disease Spread
April 27 Genetic variants tied to stroke risk
April 23 Want Your Genome Sequenced? Got $68,000? Try Your Luck on E-Bay!
April 21 The Extraordinary Challenges and Opportunities Facing Cancer Research
April 20 Molecular Profiling Seen Helpful in Patients with Metastatic Cancers
April 16 What to Do With the GWAS
April 15 “GPS” for Health Care: Washington needs to understand the promise of gene-based treatment
April 15 More Work Needed to Standardize Consumer Genomics Offerings, Top US Health Official Says
April 15 PGx Tools May Help Reassess Comparative Rx Effectiveness, PMC Official Tells Federal Council
April 14 Research Grants Include I.T. Projects
April 11 Designer drugs
April 9 Altered gene increases schizophrenia risk
April 8 Era of personalised medicine awaits
April 6 Personalized Medicine Is Growing, but Health Plans Need Policies for Coverage
April 3 Personalized medicine arrives for patients with colorectal cancer: Deal with it
April 1 'Tech-Savvy' Patient Base Enabled Calif. Hospital to Begin Offering Genetic Screening Service
April 1 Senate Considering Personalized Medicine in Budget
March 2009
March 31 Public health IT grant seekers flood CDC program
March 27 El Camino Hospital in Mountain View opens genomics center
March 27 We need to move beyond one-size-fits-all medicine
March 27 Public Comments Requested on First Value Case for Clinical Research
March 26 Comparative Effectiveness Research Begins with $1B from Stimulus
March 25 Autism Studies Reap $57M in New Stimulus Grants
March 25 Large UK GWAS Underscores Impact of CYP2C9, VKORC1, New SNP in Warfarin-Dosing Variability
March 23 Hunting tailored care for advanced prostate cancer
March 20 “Wise Policy” Needed To Link Comparative Effectiveness with Individualized Medicine
March 20 Personalized Medicine for Colon Cancer: New discovery helps doctors accurately predict which patients will be helped by certain drugs
March 19 Stanford study: Heart bypass surgery vs. angioplasty depends on age, diabetes status
March 19 Framingham Heart Study Adds Proteomics, Pens CRADA with BG Medicine for Biomarker Discovery
March 18 FDA: Pharmacies Will Change Dramatically by 2019
March 16 Obama's $2 trillion reality
March 12 As Long as It's Bad for Disease
March 12 'Personalized' Genome Sequencing Reveals Coding Error in Gene for Inherited Pancreatic Cancer
March 11 Google Co-Founder Backs Vast Parkinson’s Study
March 11 Healthcare Stakeholders Pushing for Pharmacogenomics to Guide Comparative Effectiveness Reviews
March 10 A genome's home: Genomics and health care reform
March 9 Writer Transforms Into Scientific Experiment
March 6 What price health? When it comes to health care, the balance between cost and effectiveness is a difficult one to strike
March 6 Mass General Starts Personalized Cancer Program
March 5 It’s Good to Get Personal—With Your Doctor
March 4 Moving nation from sick care toward wellness care
March 2 Mayo Clinic CEO: personalization key to fixing healthcare system
March 1 Francis Collins Addresses State of Personalized Medicine
February 2009
February 25 British company could deeply cut DNA scans' cost
February 25 Study Aims to Personalize Disease Care
February 17 Research Intensifies Toward Personalized Cancer Treatment
February 12 Q&A with DR. David Sidransky on Personalized Medicine
February 9 I'm Battling Cancer. How About Some Help, Congress?
February 6 Promising New Thyroid Cancer Treatments Target Molecular Pathways (subscription required)
February 5 Healthy Balance: Electronic medical records are here to stay, but privacy, cost and user-friendliness remain concerns
February 2 Benefit of genetic testing before blood-thinning therapy studied
January 2009
January 13 Surgeon General’s New Family Health History Tool Is Released, Ready for “21st Century Medicine”
January 13 Genome Studies Yield Insights into Childhood Leukemia
January 13 Researchers Zero In on GI Cancers
January 7 SNP Combos in Three CYP450 Genes Affect Psychotropic Response
January 7 New C-Path Group Aims to Smooth FDA-Industry Interaction Over Dx
January 2 NIST Calls Personalized Medicine a "Critical National Need," Seeks Advice for New Funding Programs
January 1 ASHG Launches Family Health History PSA Campaign in Washington, D.C.

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