Zitat des Tages von Eric Topol:
Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything.
When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don't think many people know about that.
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.
About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.
We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.
Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.