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...What would be far more useful, however, is to know individual patients?? exact genomes. Why? First, it would allow physicians to screen patients?? entire genome for gene variants that predispose us for certain diseases—instead of ordering a volley of individual (read: expensive) tests for different disorders. Women who carry a gene variant known to increase breast cancer risk, for example, would be able to begin mammograms earlier in life. Second, it would allow physicians to personalize medical treatments. In a few cases, this is already possible. The breast cancer drug Tamoxifen is much...
...about 30 percent over not having gotten pregnant in the first place,” Brind told The New York Times. Michels is currently working on another study focusing on women in the Canadian province of Manitoba. She said she chose Manitoba because all induced abortions are included in patients?? medical records, meaning she does not have to rely on individual interviews. Michels also has access to a complete cancer registry in the area...
...Both outside and within the Harvard bubble, patients?? lives depend on blood, bone marrow, and organ donations. Unfortunately, the supply of these donations doesn’t keep up with their demand; while only a small number of individuals make the choice to donate, many will accept such donations when their own lives are at stake. It’s easy to be complacent until forced to take notice...
...volunteers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Pediatrics on Friday mornings, wrote in an e-mail that she and co-workers peered out of their 18-story building after hearing of the fire, spotting a helicopter and some steam at around noon. “One of the patients?? parents came into the floor’s playroom and told us that there was a three-alarm fire at a building in Cambridge,” she wrote. According to MGH spokeswoman Valerie L. Wencis, 17 people were taken to the Harvard Medical School teaching hospital...
This breakthrough case told the FDA that it may not be constitutional for the government to make patients?? decisions for them. The case takes a step to recognizing that people have a right to choose what medication they want to take. They have a right to weigh the potential risks and benefits of drugs for themselves, with the advice of independent analysis, and decide whether it’s worth it to them. The D.C. Circuit’s ruling is a victory for our rights and a victory for our health. We should applaud it, and tell...