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U.S. White House Office of Science & Technology Issues ... Request For Information (RFI) on University Research Commercialization

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Yesterday, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) published an RFI (Request For Information) soliciting ideas on how to accelerate U.S. commercialization of federally funded Academic research...



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Federally-funded research has played a major role in the development of multiple recent… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 26, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Top 100 Life Science Universities in the World

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As reported in US News and World Report ...



To see full report:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 23, 2010 at 9:33am — 1 Comment

Mobile Apps in Medicine



healthcare IT




Smart phones and small hand held devices are making medicine safer and faster. They are being used to provide information, administrative and patient management services.And predictably, their use is shooting up.…
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Added by Dr.Neelesh Bhandari on March 22, 2010 at 2:48am — No Comments

10 Innovations That Will Transform Medicine ... Harvard Business Review

Colleagues,



This post is part of Harvard Business Review's Health Care Innovations Insight Center...



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Here are excerpts from the 10 innovations that Harvard Business Review thinks will have a big impact ...



ENJOY!



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1. Checklists Health care is catching on to something pilots have known for…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 21, 2010 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Teeth Fashion

I went to my Orange County tooth extraction dentist yesterday. In my seven years as his patient, I thought I already know everything there is to know about teeth. Much to my

surprise, there are still things I don’t know about them.





For…

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Added by Robert J. Turner on March 19, 2010 at 3:24am — No Comments

NY Times - Rural Haiti Struggles to Absorb Displaced

The New York Times




March 16, 2010


Rural Haiti Struggles to Absorb Displaced

FOND-DES-BLANCS, Haiti — Before the earthquake… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on March 16, 2010 at 5:36pm — No Comments

Fixing Academic Technology Transfer

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Two of the most accomplished authors in Triple Helix ... Academic, Industry, Government ... technology transfer strategy are Eric Campbell, PhD, Director of Research, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, and Joshua Powers, Ph.D, Chair, Department of… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 16, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Slides from FDA/DIA Workshop on Pharmacogenomics (PGx), Web site for learning PGx

Folks-

Attached are pdf versions of a few recent talks from the FDA workshop on PGx. Also I recommend that those people that don't have a basic understanding of PGx go to the web site from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology ("The Future of Medicine: Pharmacogenomics - http://user.accp1.org/index_new.html).

Thanks - Gerry…

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Added by Gerry Higgins on March 15, 2010 at 9:14am — 1 Comment

In Haiti’s Hour of Need, Texting “4636” Became a Lifeline



In Haiti’s Hour of Need, Texting “4636” Became a Lifeline

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Boy in field holding cell phone up, while watching helicopter (AP Images)
A boy uses a cell phone in Leogane, Haiti, January 20. The…
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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on March 11, 2010 at 10:47pm — 1 Comment

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Appoints Board of Directors and CEO

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Appoints Board of Directors and CEO



New York, NY – The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (CBHF), established by

Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to raise money for Haiti relief and

recovery efforts after the January

earthquake, has appointed a Board of Directors and Chief…
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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on March 9, 2010 at 7:48pm — No Comments

A Vision for Personalized Medicine

Colleagues,



As reported by MIT Tech Review ... An interview with P4 (Predictive, Personalized, Preventative, Participatory) pioneer, Dr Leroy Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology on the future of personalized medicine ...



Personalized medicine: Leroy Hood, founder of the Institute for Systems Biology, in Seattle, has a vision of the future of medicine that he calls the “P4” approach. Credit: Institute for Systems… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 9, 2010 at 8:21am — 1 Comment

EMR Physician Meetings

Harrisburg Health Information Exchange holding critical meetings



The Harrisburg Health Information Exchange will host two meetings this month to advance Electronic Medical Records, or EMR, technology between physician practices and health care providers.



The meetings will be at 3 p.m. March 17 and at 8:30 am March 27, both at the Wildwood Conference Center at Harrisburg Area Community College.



We want to ensure every physician practice and health care provider… Continue

Added by Kelly Lewis on March 7, 2010 at 1:13pm — No Comments

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