The Decision Tree
A blog about predictive medicine and the future of healthcare.
-
Dec 01, 11 12:47PMForbes reported that Astra Zeneca sponsored a drug trial where their lipid-lowering drug, Crestor, went head-to-head with Pfizer’s Lipitor, a strange battle from the start since many considered Lipitor...
-
Oct 05, 11 07:41AMThe small, red berries of the _Richadella dulcifica_ plant are not very sweet. In fact, miraculin, the main chemical found in the berry’s flesh tastes like, well, nothing. But after eating these berries...
-
Sep 30, 11 01:39PMEven if you only got a whiff of the product demo sessions at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco this week, you noticed: sensors are getting smaller, cheaper, and more closely integrated into t ools...
-
Sep 26, 11 07:08PMPeople use Facebook, Twitter, or other social media sites as channels for self-expression. But whether updating or uploading, people are telling their social stories with only two tools: text and imag es...
-
Sep 05, 11 11:43PMThe idea that climate change is linked to the spread of a disease is not new. Some bacteria and viruses, after all, piggyback on an animal or insect, and the infectious advance depends on the host&rsq uo...
-
Sep 05, 11 11:41PMThe brilliance of Wikipedia is that anyone, at any time, can contribute to the project, and in doing so, the collective knowledge of the world’s largest encyclopedia keeps improving and expandin g...
-
Aug 16, 11 06:23AMRead the post here.
-
Aug 16, 11 06:23AMRead the post here.
-
Aug 15, 11 06:18PM*Note: I’ve been using Google+ for a few weeks now, mostly as an intermediary between sharing a link on Twitter and writing a blog post. For the time being, I’m going to repost the content that...
-
Jun 21, 11 11:09PMAbout a year ago, right after The Decision Tree book came out, I realized that a concept I touched on in the book had far larger potential. The Feedback Loop, it struck me, had potential as a framewor k...
Showing 1 to 10 of 133 posts