Healthcare is on the verge of a paradigm shift due to digital technologies, as our Digital Health Manifesto points out. Trends and research suggest that in the next years, medicine will shift from a reactive to a proactive discipline. Moreover, to stay at the letter P, it is said to become personalized, preventive and participatory. With the...
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Virtual Reality Is Used in Clinical Practice
Dr. Brennan M. Spiegel and his research team at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have been experimenting with virtual reality (VR) for years. I had a fruitful and very exciting correspondence with him about moments of immersion, virtual pharmacies or how to travel to Iceland without leaving your hospital bed. Read on! VR is an area of...
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Mitochondrial replacement moratorium should be reconsidered, researchers say
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] –Mothers with mitochondrial DNA mutations often give birth to children who face incurable and fatal illnesses. But a much-studied form of mitochondrial replacement (MR) could prevent the transmission of such diseases from mothers to children, researchers say. For that reason, two researchers argue that the U.S. moratorium that includes MR should...
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Opinion: No, FDA Didn’t Really Approve 23andMe’s BRCA Test
It would have been remarkable news if the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the breast cancer mutations test of 23andMe. The test includes three BRCA mutations that are a common cause of familial breast and ovarian cancer exclusively in Ashkenazi Jewish women. But according to numerous media reports, the FDA did just that earlier...