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Feeling good about feeling bad

Posted in 5HTT, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Just a pointer to a great book – The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield.  Its an in-depth treatment on the many reasons and contexts in which we – quite naturally – feel sad and depressed and the way in which diagnostic [...]

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SLC1A1 SNPs as tiny deliveries on payment of big promise

Posted in SLC1A1, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image via Wikipedia In their forecast “The World in 2010” special issue, the Economist points to “The looming crisis in human genetics” wherein scientists will reluctantly acknowledge that, even with super-cheap genome sequencing tools, we may not soon understand how genetic variation contributes to complex illness.  The argument is a valid one to be sure, [...]

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Webcast to NIH conference on family history information

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

pointer to next week’s conference in Bethesda NIH State-of-the-Science Conference: Family History and Improving Health.  From the website, “Family history is also critical to determining who will benefit from genetic testing for both common and rare conditions, and can facilitate interpretation of genetic test results.”  You can watch live or later via an archived webcast!

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echoblog: Esther Dyson promotes Health 2.0 in the FT

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image by rexhammock via Flickr pointer to: Information technology investor and member of the pioneering “PGP-10″ personal genome volunteer Esther Dyson has a great article on the Health 2.0 movement in – the mainstream of all mainstream media – the Financial Times.

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echoblog: Declaration of Health Data Rights

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Image by Scooter Flix via Flickr pointer to — Dr. John Grohol, the CEO and founder of Psych Central, has a great post “You have the right to your health data” and introduces the Declaration of Health Data Rights,  a simple statement of fundamental patient rights.  Check it out and endorse!

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Health 2.0, take my ‘-ome’ please!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on July 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Just quickly plugging the various feeds and discussions from the recent Health 2.0 conference. Thanks to the facebook group, folks like me, who did not attend, are getting great insights into the emerging issues in this exciting area. Doesn’t seem like too long before the open, consumer-directed, health management & care model is seamlessly knitted [...]

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Happenings at Harvard Partners

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Image via Wikipedia Christopher Rowland gives a great perspective on the new venture fund at the Harvard Partners Healthcare system. If you want a peek at the future of personalized medicine, check out the Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics – where basic research is seamlessly integrated with clinical care. I attended their first annual [...]

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