Category: Health Newsfeed
October 28, 2016 – Embracing Variation
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Anchor lead: Emerging technologies may help us understand why some people respond to medical treatments and some don’t, Elizabeth Tracey reports Trying to understand why some people respond to certain medicines or treatments and others don’t is a kind of …
October 27, 2016 – Chips and Medicine
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Anchor lead: How is the silicone chip industry joining forces with medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports The same kind of technology that’s used in your cell phone may someday soon provide a range of mobile medical testing, that will benefit not …
October 26, 2016 – High Performing Hospitals
October 25, 2016 – Trial Results
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Anchor lead: Why aren’t researchers putting complete trial data on the NIH’s website? Elizabeth Tracey reports January 2017 marks the point of no tolerance for the NIH, which has warned researchers who receive federal funds that if they don’t post …
October 24, 2016 – Reproducibility
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Anchor lead: As taxpayers, we’re all vested in scientific studies that can be reproduced, Elizabeth Tracey reports The majority of scientific studies are funded with taxpayer dollars through the NIH, but often are revealed as flawed when another researcher tries …