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  • By admin  |  Nov 18, 2015

    Personalized Medicine & Companion Diagnostics: Speaking with Keith Stewart, Director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine

    _____________________________________________________________________ Real World Health Care: Why was the Center for Individualized Medicine formed at the Mayo Clinic? What were its initial goals and how have those goals changed? Keith Stewart: The Center was formed in 2012 with the idea that it would harness the power of the human genome to…more.

  • By admin  |  Nov 5, 2015

    Targeting Breast Cancer: The Subtypes of Breast Cancer

    _____________________________________________________________________ By Emily Burke, Ph.D., Director of Curriculum Development, BiotechPrimer.com Editor’s Note: Based on an article originally published in Biotech Primer Weekly Hearing your doctor utter the words HER2-positive, HR-positive, triple-negative or BRCA mutation can be devastating — even for the most resilient person. Simply put, all are linked to breast…more.

  • By admin  |  Oct 28, 2015

    Personalized Medicine & Companion Diagnostics: Speaking with Dr. Joshua Cohen, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development

    _____________________________________________________________________ By Real World Health Care Editorial Staff Editor’s Note: In August, the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) hosted a roundtable of R&D leaders focused on development of companion diagnostics that can show their use in conjunction with personalized therapeutics that will lead to positive health…more.

  • By admin  |  Oct 14, 2015

    Personalized Medicine & Companion Diagnostics: What You Need to Know

    _____________________________________________________________________ By Emily Burke, Ph.D., Director of Curriculum Development, BiotechPrimer.com  Personalized medicine – also referred to as precision or stratified medicine – is already changing the way we diagnose and treat disease. As our ability to obtain and analyze large amounts of genetic data increases, so too will the range and…more.

  • By admin  |  Oct 6, 2015

    New Series: The Value of Personalized Medicine

    _____________________________________________________________________ By Linda Barlow For more than two years, the staff of and contributors to www.RealWorldHealthCare.org (RWHC) have been proud to share stories about proven healthcare solutions that lower costs, improve access to care, and lead to better patient outcomes. Starting this Fall, RWHC will embark on a new mission.…more.

  • By admin  |  Sep 15, 2015

    HCUP: Potentially Preventable Pediatric Inpatient Stays for Asthma and Diabetes

    _____________________________________________________________________ By Linda Barlow A statistical brief from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) addresses one of the key issues in the healthcare industry today: preventing hospitalizations. HCUP examined trends in the rates of potentially preventable pediatric visits for asthma and diabetes, which have increased by 21 percent in…more.

  • By admin  |  Sep 8, 2015

    Most Americans Say They Can Afford Drugs but the Sick Still Struggle

    _____________________________________________________________________ By Linda Barlow According to an August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, it appears that most Americans (72%) can afford their prescription drugs. However, one in four Americans surveyed indicate difficulties, including more than four in ten people who are sick. Others facing difficulties paying for their prescription drugs include…more.

  • By admin  |  Jul 21, 2015

    Rebounding from the Impact of Multiple Sclerosis: The Champlin Family’s Story

    _____________________________________________________________________ By Mollie Katz Life has not been the same for Dee Champlin, her husband Mark and their two sons since Dee was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2008. The disease has imperiled Dee’s vision, severely limited her walking and weakened her memory and speech. But she and her…more.

  • By admin  |  Jul 15, 2015

    Health Care Innovation is a Game That Everyone Can Play

    _____________________________________________________________________ By Alex Revelos, Fellow, MIT System Design and Management Why?  Because everyone has been a patient, experienced a pain point, identified an unmet need, or had an idea to improve the health care experience.  However, one of the really challenging parts of health care innovation is that, while there are…more.

  • By admin  |  Jul 7, 2015

    Millennials are Shaping the Future of Health Apps

    _____________________________________________________________________ By FitClick Editorial Staff What comes to mind when you think of millennials? Are you reminded of stereotypes about this generation’s apathy? Self-serving nature? Tendency to be too self-involved? While the validity of these stereotypes is debatable, what you may not associate with millennials is their role as leaders…more.

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