2014-12-04

A first step towards a saner, more efficient medical research enterprise.

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It is insufficiently known that when asked, patients are very willing to share their medical information with researchers but much less so w...
2014-09-23

Worrisome Trends in Ebola

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My colleague John Brownstein just shared these worrying projections for Ebola epidemiology.
2014-08-06

Near real-time tracking of Ebola

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If you want to see just how Ebola is spreading (and soon regressing?) , this article provides the view and insight of how it’s done. Ten ye...
2014-03-27

Classification system worthy of legislative intervention?

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The ICD-10 diagnostic classification system is due to be adopted by US healthcare systems this year. However, new legislation would defer th...
2014-03-25

Achieving clarity in cancer genomics

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Approximately 3 years ago, we held a clinical bioinformatics summit to discuss with international leaders in genomics, genetic testing and c...
2014-03-03

Scholar Medical Publication DIY by Harvard Medical Students

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If, as F. Scott Fitzgerald is reported to have said, action is character, then the current crop of Harvard medical students are impressive ...
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2014-01-24

Battle of the beauty contests

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Does the analysis of the citation of publications of research adequately measure the impact or worth of the research reported upon? Does the...
2014-01-23

Welcome news from the Wellcome Collection

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Many of us have had the following experience. We find an interesting illustration and use it for a scholarly presentation or for a class. Th...
2013-10-18

Help get more women into Science

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There is a problem that is well articulated by one of our students, Jean Fan. To quote her: According to the US Department of Commerce, gi...
2013-09-28

Ghost stories for scientists

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This report in Scientific American , just in time for the Halloween season, demonstrates that incorporeal beings take great interest in obes...
2013-07-30

A thoughtful and useful report on the Aaron Swartz tragedy

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This ( http://swartz-report.mit.edu/docs/report-to-the-president.pdf ) is a report that Professor Abelson helped author on the behalf of M...
2013-07-17

Innovation to grow (and track the growth of children).

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I've written in the past about the bottleneck in innovation in electronic health records and how the design of such systems with substi...
2013-06-21

Make our data work for us!

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Use our data please. But for us. See WBUR's CommonHealth blog
2013-04-08

Getting Big About Mapping Dengue

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Here's a very nice application of lightly used data sources about Dengue , a scourge of underdeveloped countries. As in so many areas of...
2013-01-08

Epidemic or epiphenomenon?

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A number of crowd-sourced infection monitors such as FluNearYou (by our own Dr. J. Brownstein ) have reported an apparent upsurge in influe...
2012-12-03

Take this ontology and shove it. Or, why classification matters.

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I was recently called out by one of my colleagues for saying that ontologies were boring, this despite my own doctoral work on knowledge r...
2012-11-20

Learning from the FDA

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It is not too often that one is driven to read a report from a regulatory agency. Even rarer are the instances when we find prismatic exampl...
2012-10-23

No Publication Without Taxation?

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I recently obtained a copy of a presentation by Elsevier representatives describing how they price their publications for different academic...
2012-09-03

Yet Another Healthcare Research Steeplechase Barrier

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I was recently informed that I have to take an on-line course about conflict of interest and then document all commercial activities. I was ...
2012-08-16

Hungry for DNA Games?

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Thirty teams world-wide are apparently hungry enough and willing to contribute to making genomic medicine possible. Their efforts will help...