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  • Publication bias in clinical trials

    18 Nov 2009
    Gobbledygook
    Last week the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a paper on selective outcome reporting in clinical trials (Vedula et al. 2009). The primary and secondary outcome(s) of a clinical trial could for example be survival in cancer patients or rate of heart attacks and other cardiovascula...

  • Decode -- Corpse or Phoenix?

    18 Nov 2009
    Omics! Omics!
    The news that Decode has filed for bankruptcy is a sad milestone in the history of genomics companies. Thus falls either the final or penultimate human gene mapping companies, with everyone else having either disappeared entirely or exited that business. A partial list would include Sequana, Me...

  • Brother, can you spare a Krona?

    17 Nov 2009
    genomeboy.com
    Dan and Daniel have all of the incisive analysis you need about the deCODE unraveling. Meanwhile, Steve invokes Sartre: Publicly owned companies shares are extremely liquid and can be crushed pretty easily, where as rich ol’ moneybags (SergeandMe) can keep throwing money into the kitty and outlas...

  • TCW: A hermitian operator in self-imposed exile

    20 Nov 2009
    Field of Science
    Pure mathematicians have the reputation of being otherworldly and divorced from practical matters. Grisha or Grigory Perelman, the Russian mathematician who at the turn of this century solved one of the great unsolved problems in mathematics, the Poincare Conjecture, is sadly or perhaps appropria...

  • List of Hospitals in Social Media: Update

    17 Nov 2009
    ScienceRoll
    Ed Bennett has been updating a huge list of US hospitals that are engaged in social media. They manage a blog, or have Twitter, Youtube or Facebook accounts. Now there are 441 hospitals in the list and it’s still growing. 213 YouTube Channels 241 Facebook pages 323 Twitter Accounts 55 Blogs ...

  • From Paper to Medical Records: Shareable Ink

    17 Nov 2009
    ScienceRoll
    The best medical blog out there, Medgadget.com, has recently covered the TEDMED 2009 conference and they have been sharing video interviews with us for weeks. One of the most interesting interviews is about Shareable Ink. It might make it easier for hospitals and practices worldwide to create ele...

  • Live in My Skin Campaign

    17 Nov 2009
    ScienceRoll
    “Live in My Skin” is one of the best health-related campaigns I have ever seen. Really creative and it will certainly reach its goal. An American pharmaceutical company transformed 5 doctors into psoriasis sufferers with the collaboration of Hollywood makeup experts. They had to walk in the stree...

  • Too much monkey business

    17 Nov 2009
    genomeboy.com
    Elsewhere in this volume she talks about creationism, saying she “didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea” or from “monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees.”

  • Hey DTC genomics, Stay Private, Stay Alive, Go Public and Die

    17 Nov 2009
    Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You
    Today's lesson in start up business in the field of DTC Genomics is this.....Stay Private and Stay Alive. IPO and doom yourself to a painful and public death.Huh? Ah, yes our first DTC Genomics venture is going to be restructured to someone else and the thought experiment will become a reality. "...

  • Details on the future of the deCODEme service

    17 Nov 2009
    Genetic Future
    I was just sent this email by a deCODEme customer:As a valued subscriber to deCODEme, we wanted to write to you directly to let you know about some important developments in the company and how we believe these will underpin our ability to continue to keep you in the forefront of understanding wh...
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