Precision Medicine and Public Health (from Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease)
Excerpted fromPrecision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human DiseaseDespite having the most advanced healthcare technology on the planet, life expectancy in the United States is not particularly high. Citizens from most of the European countries and the highly industrialized Asian countries enjoy longer life expectancies than the United States. According to the World Health Organization, the United States ranks 31st among nations, trailing behind Greece, Chile, and Costa Rica, and barely edging out Cuba [42]. Similar rankings are reported by the US Central Intelligence Agency [43]. These findings lead us to infer that acc...
Source: Specified Life - February 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer vaccines precision medicine prevention public health Source Type: blogs
Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease (Book Index)
In January, 2018, Academic Press published my bookPrecision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease. This book has an excellent " look inside " at itsGoogle book site, which includes the Table of Contents. In addition, I thought it might be helpful to see the topics listed in the Book ' s index. Note that page numbers followed by f indicate figures, t indicate tables, and ge indicate glossary terms.AAbandonware, 270, 310geAb initio, 34, 48ge, 108geABL (abelson leukemia) gene, 28, 58ge, 95 –97Absidia corymbifera, 218Acanthameoba, 213Acanthosis nigricans, 144geAchondroplasia, 74, 143ge, 354geAcne, 54ge, 198, 220geAcq...
Source: Specified Life - January 23, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: index jules berman jules j berman precision medicine Source Type: blogs
Holly Butcher: her letter goes viral after she dies at age 27
Many thanks to Cynthia for posting about a letter written by a young Australian woman, Holly Butcher, who died on January 4. She had Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer that usually affects young people and children.
I was quite touched by parts of it, so I decided to write a quick post. Before I forget, here’s the link to an Australian news article about Holly (and you can get to and read her full letter there, too): goo.gl/sLEYd8
In Holly’s letter, I recognized some of the feelings I myself have/have had…For instance, the irritation that I feel at times because my girlfriends don’t wa...
Source: Margaret's Corner - January 12, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Holly Butcher Source Type: blogs
Ben's Sucky Words
Tomorrow, I ’ll mail to the University of Southern Maine my thesis for my Master of Fine Arts in creative writing degree. Seeing it packaged and ready to go got me thinking about a gift from my first-semester advisor,Suzanne Strempek Shea. She gave me this little notebook to keep with me so my ability to write something is never far from my impulse to.I labeled my pocket-sized notebook Ben Rubenstein ’s Sucky Words to remind me that I have the freedom to write without judgement or consequence. In fact, I must always accept that any of my written work up until its final form sucks. Without that acceptance, I’d freeze,...
Source: cancerslayerblog - November 26, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: MFA writing/speaking Source Type: blogs
Ben's Sucky Words
Tomorrow, I ’ll mail to the University of Southern Maine my thesis for my Master of Fine Arts in creative writing degree. Seeing it packaged and ready to go got me thinking about a gift from my first-semester advisor,Suzanne Strempek Shea. She gave me this little notebook to keep with me so my ability to write something is never far from my impulse to.I labeled my pocket-sized notebook Ben Rubenstein ’s Sucky Words to remind me that I have the freedom to write without judgement or consequence. In fact, I must always accept that any of my written work up until its final form sucks. Without that acceptance, I’d freeze,...
Source: cancerslayerblog - November 26, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: MFA writing/speaking Source Type: blogs
Deans Need Progressive Responsibility Too
Dr. Antman and her family at the 2016 American Heart Association Boston Heart & Stroke Gala
Editor’s Note: This blog post complements the recently published study “The Decanal Divide: Women in Decanal Roles at U.S. Medical Schools.” Read the full study on academicmedicine.org.
By: Karen Antman, MD
Dr. Antman is dean, Boston University School of Medicine, provost, Boston University Medical Campus, and chair, AAMC Council of Deans
Why aren’t more medical school deans women? Medical school faculty don’t normally wake up thinking, “I want to be dean.” How then does one end up there? I was asked to...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective AAMC Council of Deans Boston University Medical Campus Boston University School of Medicine gender leadership research women Source Type: blogs
Hi There, I Write Your Stories, I Mean ‘Our Stories’
I write stories about my coworkers. Collectively known as "Our Stories," a new one publishes in my organization's newsletter every other week. Yesterday, the newsletter published a story I wrote about . . . myself. Here is that story with some redactions.* * *Every morning after waking, I prime my body and mind for the day: meditate for 20 minutes, perform 20 pull -ups, and then jump on a mini trampoline while singing whatever pops into my head. I then move to the kitchen where I prepare four eggs mixed with hot sauce and grated cheddar on a pan coated with butter, and pour-over coffee. Once my breakfast is ready, I en...
Source: cancerslayerblog - September 7, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: life lessons writing/speaking Source Type: blogs
Carissa Gleason: Embracing real medicine after fake medicine failed her
I wasn’t sure if I should do this post, mainly because I could find so little information to elaborate on a bit of information that I discovered. Then I thought about it a bit more. Perhaps my not being able to find out will illustrate my point better than a detailed progress report on a… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 3, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Popular culture Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Carissa Gleeson sarcoma Tijuana Ty Bollinger Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Orthopaedic Oncologist Dr. Vincent Ng
Dr. Vincent Ng is an orthopaedic oncologist with the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor or Orthopaedics with the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Ng specializes in treating bone cancer and soft tissue sarcoma. Below he answers common questions about orthopaedic oncology.
What is an orthopaedic oncologist? How do they differ from surgical oncologists?
“An orthopaedic oncologist specializes in bone and soft tissue tumors. I treat any adult or pediatric patient with any bone or soft tissue tumor/lesion/mass, whether benign or malignant, whether it is...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - June 2, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Cancer Doctors bone cancer oncology orthopedics Source Type: blogs
If Everything Took 15 Minutes: Considering Time
I always thought about time —How long until we get there, Mommy and Daddy? . . .Fifteen minutes, Benjamin . . .no matter the destination, my parents always proclaimed the car ride would take 15 minutes —but time assumed new significance when I was 16.I remember, then, scanning the ceiling and thinking about time. Unlike my bedroom nowadays, in which even my computer ’s LED light is covered with a blackout sticker, my hospital room dazzled with light streaming in through the door’s small window and from the IV machine’s red digits telling me fluid was entering my bloodstream at 150 milliliters an hour. The light p...
Source: cancerslayerblog - March 21, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: life lessons MFA Source Type: blogs
The Literary Citizen
I just got home from my third residency in theStonecoast creative writing program where I learned writing and bonded with friends (over writing) every moment, from waking until slumber, and I realize now I must respond to texts from a week ago. Halfway through today I will cease being productive and slow my brain. In that calm, I hope my synapses strengthen their hold on the lessons I learned. Here are some of those lessons (in my own words) which you can use in your writing and in your life. These are courtesy of two Stonecoast faculty members,Justin Tussing andSuzanne Strempek Shea, who don ’t just mentor me, but reall...
Source: cancerslayerblog - January 16, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: MFA writing/speaking Source Type: blogs
MR-HIFU and ThermoDox to Treat Recurrent Childhood Tumors: Interview with AeRang Kim, Principal Investigator
Children’s National Health System and the Celsion Corporation (Lawrenceville, NJ) have recently announced a Phase I clinical trial in the US to determine a safe and tolerable dose of ThermoDox in conjunction with non-invasive magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (MR-HIFU). The trial is aimed on young adults and children with recurring solid tumors.
ThermoDox technology consists of liposomes loaded with doxorubicin, a conventional chemotherapeutic drug. Liposomes are small lipid structures which can be used to encapsulate and deliver drugs through the bloodstream. While liposomal doxorubicin formu...
Source: Medgadget - December 6, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
Happy 90th Birthday, Academic Medicine! Part II
To celebrate the journal’s 90th birthday this year, members of the editorial office and editorial board selected influential, interesting, and fun articles from the archive to share with you. Below is Part II of our dive into the archive. Check out Part I here. For more about the journal’s history, check out this timeline of milestones from the last 90 years.
We hope you enjoy these highlights from our archive. In the comments section below or on Twitter using #HappyBDayAcMed, please share you own favorite articles with us.
Toni Gallo, Senior Staff Editor
Our Post-Convention Caribbean Cruise
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 21, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured #HappyBDayAcMed art in medicine assessment Flexner Report history of medicine teaching and learning moments women in academic medicine Source Type: blogs
TWiV 407: Tar Heels go viral, part one
In the first of two shows recorded at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Vincent meets up with faculty members to talk about how they got into science, their research on DNA viruses, and what they would be doing if they were not scientists.
You can find TWiV #407 part one at microbe.tv/twiv. Or watch the video above, or listen below.
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Source: virology blog - September 18, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology Epstein-Barr virus hepatitis b virus human cytomegalovirus human papillomavirus humanized mice Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus kshv oral hairy leukoplakia oral microbiome UNC-Chapel Hill viral viruses Source Type: blogs
