Recently, a flood of studies has begun to address this difference (see " Race-Based Medicine Arrives").
Over at Science-Based Medicine, neurologist and skeptic Steven Novella has a more positive interpretation.
However, we cannot on one hand promote evidence-based medicine and on the other hand ignore what we do not like.
FORBES: Chelation Therapy: What To Do With Inconvenient Evidence
We live in a world of evidence-based medicine, where we are urged to base our medical recommendations and decisions on clinical studies.
FORBES: Chelation Therapy: What To Do With Inconvenient Evidence
What would the high lords of evidence-based medicine have made of Kelman?
FORBES: We Probably Spend Too Little On Health Care (Unless You're Peter Orszag)
Gorski, an associate professor of surgery at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, is the managing editor of the influential blog Science-Based Medicine.
Aetna applied evidence-based medicine data in their partnership with US Oncology and saw a 35 percent reduction in costs with improved patient outcomes.
More importantly, evidence-based medicine always favors old therapies over new ones.
FORBES: We Probably Spend Too Little On Health Care (Unless You're Peter Orszag)
Carl Heneghan, Director, Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford is part of a Cochrane team reviewing the effectiveness of the anti-viral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza.
The two-year-old start-up seeks to combine evidence-based medicine, behavioral modification techniques and smart design to combat major illnesses, such as diabetes, and cardiovascular disease before they become full-blown.
FORBES: Omada Health Which Focuses On Diabetes Prevention Raises $4.7 Million
Biophysical Corporation, the Austin, Texas--based firm that created the Biophysical250, is affiliated with Rules-Based Medicine, a lab that's received biomarker research grants from, among others, the National Cancer Institute.
The government has indicated that if the trials are successful it would be prepared to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to allow the prescribing of a cannabis-based medicine.
Modern science-based medicine has been awesomely successful.
As a scientist and progenitor of a website called Data-Based Medicine, he begins by citing three studies that have shown an effect, albeit a weak one, for cardiac patients who were prayed for versus those who were not.
Today, evidence-based medicine is accessible for clinicians and linked to software that provides real-time, high-quality clinical decision support, which leads to increased accuracy, better patient care, streamlined documentation and the elimination of costs formerly related to manual inefficiencies.
In summary, Precision Medicine, defined as rules (algorithm) based medicine by Clayton Christensen seems on the horizon, where medicine and drug discovery will ultimately be supported by intelligent systems (compare Watson) that will enable completely new therapeutic concepts, not least with the advent of mobileICT-based companion (monitoring)diagnostics.
FORBES: Does Pharma's Innovation Difficulties Reflect Bad Leaders or Tough Circumstances?
The question is whether the traditional educational profile of the journalist, J-schooled or not, can compete with the ingenuity of the technology companies, the knowledge of emerging expert media (such as Science-Based Medicine) or even the power of government as delineated in a fascinating report by Deloitte, to produce and disseminate not only information but also the tools to interpret that information.
The US Supreme Court is due to rule on that later this year, with huge implications for the development of genetically-based personalised medicine.
Elizabeth Lee Vliet, who has an Arizona-based internal medicine practice, says she tries to ask very specific questions, particularly about over-the-counter medicine usage.
Mary Boughton, of the Dorset-based herbal medicine specialists, Dorwest, said her business had already lost money as a result of the VAT change.
Continuous monitoring of the differentiation process of stem cells is of great importance for the development of cell-based regenerative medicine therapies and is extremely novel.
Siga vehemently disagreed, expecting a much larger payment for a dose of the medicine based on their argument that their intellectual property was far more valuable than what the government was prepared to acknowledge.
FORBES: Is Bizarre Smallpox Drug Deal Obama Administration's Next Solyndra?
The research will be published in the American-based New England Journal of Medicine.
"It could usher in an era of very personalized medicine where, based on the smart delivery system, one pill could take care of many different things for an individual, " he says.
The specialist in cosmetic medicine, who is based in Witten, Germany, had admitted confusing morphine with another drug.
And our belief is based on the fundamental ethical precept of medicine is that we first do no harm.
Historically, scale for good in the pharmaceutical sector would have been based on the development and sale of medicine.
The technology is very similar to the Nikon system I wrote about (sidebar) being installed for the Toronto based Center for the Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine.
FORBES: Using Stem Cells To Identify Better (And Cheaper) Drugs
After tests, Switzerland-based Novartis dropped the idea of using the medicine for transplant patients because it was no more effective than existing agents.
If medicine truly moves to a team based approach, this should open the door to quality tort reform and shared responsibility of medical decision making.
FORBES: Dinosaur Doctors And The Death Of Paternalistic Medicine
应用推荐