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Frustrated by how long it takes cutting-edge knowledge to trickle down from the lab to the doctor's office, patients have been rushing to come up with their own ways of achieving what the health care industry calls rapid learning. In October, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), an influential...
"Patients expect me to have seen every possible thing about melanoma out there, but if I did, I wouldn't possibly have time to take care of patients," says Duke oncologist Dr. Amy Abernethy, who spoke at the IOM conference about what rapid learning might look like when applied to...
The medical community is watching such Patient 2.0 endeavors with a mix of admiration and trepidation. Clinical trials take a long time because they're rigorously controlled, with close attention paid to sampling bias and methodology. "Traditional, long-standing, peer-reviewed ways of testing new treatments and interventions is not...
Cape Town, known as "The Mother City" to South Africans, is an exquisitely beautiful place that is in many ways a model for the new Africa: diverse, entrepreneurial, forward-looking. It is one of the hosts of the World Cup this June and July, when hundreds of millions of soccer...
At the press conference, Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker gave Timberlake the award of “Cantabrigian of the Year.”