Precision Medicine
This week's top stories include workers at Tenet Healthcare hospitals securing better pay after striking, Inspiration4 testing the impact of spaceflight on the body, and scientists highlighting gaps in telemedicine.
It's important to provide diverse offerings for different surgical training use cases, says FundamentalVR CEO Richard Vincent.
Assaf Halevy, CEO and founder of 2bPrecise, says genomic information can be injected into the workflow to manage the treatment of the patient.
2bPrecise CMO Joel Diamond, MD, says pharmacogenomics is a good entry point for providers in precision medicine, identifying the right medicine for better outcomes and patient satisfaction.
Deep Dive: Clinicians are integrating social factors, genomics and medical histories to better treat patients.
Azizi Seixas, with the Department of Population Health and the Center for Healthful Behavior Change at NYU School of Medicine, talks about using risk assessment tools to close the health access gap.
Speaking from experience, Bradford Power, founder of Reengineering Cancer Treatment and an author focused on process improvement, discusses the ways oncology treatment needs to become more personalized.
Dr. Annette Sobel, professor at Texas Tech University and board member at the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, talks about the research of human physiology and human factors in space medicine.
Erin Trimble of 23andMe discusses the value of polygenic risk scores, making genetic information actionable for better health and equipping primary care providers to talk with their patients about genetics.
DayTwo's metagenomics and gut microbiome database helps connect diabetics and others with evidence-based "food-as-medicine" treatment regimens, says President Josh Stevens.
