An “open-source” approach to accelerating human health advances is the common theme among a diverse group of medical science projects that have won six science awards honoring “excellence in participant-centered research” - a rapidly emerging field that aims to turn patients and healthy people into more active and more data-sharing participants in medical research. The awards will be given out at Harvard Medical School in Boston on April 25 at a scientific convening called GET Conference (“GET” stands for “Genomes, Environments, Traits”). “The winners of the GETy Awards are at the forefront of a research revolution that will radically accelerate the rate of human health advances,” says Jason Bobe, organizer of the GET Conference, and Executive Director of the nonprofit PersonalGenomes.org.
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Getting a slice of PHI
There is a communicative aspect to medicine that many tend to gloss over. The very heart of medicine is having one person sit down and talk about themselves to another. Read More »
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Getting Enough Vitamin D: More Than Milk And Sunshine
New research finds that people with low levels of vitamin D are more likely to die from cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. Nutrition professor and author Marion Nestle explains. Read More »
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Getting In The Access Loop
Several times in the past few weeks, I have heard [regrets] from researchers in Africa who I have invited to participate in a webinar called “Getting in the Access Loop”—which explores how health research from Africa can have greater representation in journals, and therefore greater influence and impact. Read More »
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Getting Medical Info Digitally in a Disaster -- How One SAMMIES Finalist Made It Happen
When disasters strike -- think hurricanes, wildfires or terrorists attacks-- and you are in need of medical care, Dr. Herman Allen Dobbs is the guy to call. As the Chief Medical officer for the National Disaster Medical Systems at the Department of Health and Human Services, Dobbs worked to significantly improve the way disaster victims receive heathcare. Read More »
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Getting There from Here: Four Considerations for Transitioning to Open Development
For almost two years now, we at the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology have been talking about how to create an open-development ecosystem around the digital resources that have been developed through the caBIG program. Read More »
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Getting To The Right Relationship Between Doctors And Drug Companies
The pharmaceutical industry is held in remarkably low esteem right now. It's seen as a bunch of nefarious pushers who pay off vulnerable doctors to prescribe their latest expensive, mediocre product. Physicians who work with pharma companies are considered especially suspect, routinely described as "cozy," "in bed with industry," and "on the take." Read More »
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GETy Awards Celebrate Unorthodox Open-Source Approaches to Accelerating Human Health Advances
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GFAR Launches Platform To Make Agricultural Data More Available
In an effort to make agricultural research more widely available, The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) officially launched the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) platform in October of 2013. The GODAN program, born from the 2012 G8 conference, “Open Data in Agriculture,” is designed to make agricultural data open, shared and available. Read More »
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GGA Software Services Launches Open-Source Version Of Chemistry Electronic Lab Notebook
GGA Software Services has released version 1.0 of Indigo ELN, the open-source version of the chemistry electronic lab notebook that was developed by one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. Read More »
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Ghana’s ISPs Are Dying Out Because The Mobile Web Is Booming
Ghana boasts Africa’s highest penetration of mobile broadband, at 23% of the population in 2011, the latest year for which figures are available. That compares with just 7% in 2010. By contrast, fixed-broadband penetration stood at a negligible 0.3% in 2011, and that’s killing Ghana’s internet service providers (ISPs). Read More »
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Ghosts In The Criminal Machine - How A Drug Company Can Plead Guilty To Federal Fraud, Yet No One Is Held Responsible
We have often discussed how leaders of health care organizations have become increasingly unaccountable for their actions. A recent, slightly obscure story shows how a corporate admission of guilt to a felony can be used to prevent anyone, including anyone in corporate management, from being held responsible for that fraud. Read More »
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Giant GSK Settlement Provides Reminder of the Pervasiveness of Stealth Marketing
The latest and biggest legal settlement involving health care to hit the news, that of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the US government, has many familiar elements. [These documents] provide good documentation about how pervasive systematic, deceptive stealth marketing campaigns have become in health care. Read More »
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Giant Robots and Open Source
Do you use Open Source Software (OSS)? If you do you are probably aware of the various types of OSS licenses and terms in those licenses that your organization needs to be able to square away with organizational policies and industry regulations. But which OSS packages do you use? Read More »
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Gigantic Run-Up Of Federal Debt For What?
At the end of fiscal year 2008, the federal debt held by the public was about $5.8 trillion. By the end of fiscal year 2012, it had grown to about $11.3 trillion. Thus, in just four years, it had nearly doubled: the government ran up almost as much debt in four years as it had accumulated during the entire previous history of the nation. [...] Read More »
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Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare Chooses CAV Systems for QuadraMed CPR Data Extraction
CAV Systems Ltd, a leading Israeli software company, recently completed delivery of a custom “data extraction” solution for Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota. Gillette is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in the diagnosis and treatment of children, teens and adults who have disabilities and complex medical conditions. Read More »
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