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IOM not webcast today. Why Not?

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:43:00 +0000

The IOM conference "Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A Cross-Academies Workshop" will not be webcast today? I wonder why not? Was it supposed to be and then submarined after Muin Khoury quoted an...

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National Academies skeptical at Best.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:47:00 +0000

If you would like to watch the IOM conference you can check out day one here My take away from the first day. "Do you guys (DTC) know what you are doing?" "I wonder what kind of research and...

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Some Confusion Exists

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:03:00 +0000

I have a great comment string going on with Daniel MacArthur over at his blog Genetic Future I think there is some confusion going on here and I place blame on just about everyone in this space...

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Why DTC Genomics IS Medicine.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:56:00 +0000

I think I have argued this logic several times but perhaps have not sharpened it to the level this need to be. DTC Genomic/Genetic testing is not medicine. That is the claim. The answer as to...

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First Mari, Now Linda. Who's next?

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:43:00 +0000

First, I wish Linda Avey all the best, eve though she stared me down in 2007 like I was some pariah doing awful things screwing up her plans for world domination....... Second, I wanted to point...

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Is it true?

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:37:00 +0000

Did Anne really dump Linda for Google? Inquiring minds want to know. I am looking forward to the next couple of weeks out of the DTC Genomics community. IMHO, they were not that impressive at the...

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Re-Reviewing the National Academies

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:29:00 +0000

After listening closely to Timothy Aitman of the Imperial College of London, it seems to me that the market for DTC is not in the United States. It is in Jolly 'Ol England. Timothy seems to be...

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The problem with nonclinicians.......

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:48:00 +0000

There is a huge set of people involved in the clinical DTC genomics game who are arguing that what they do is not medicine. Some of these people aren't even employees for these companies. There is a...

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Crazy Night of Emails to Government

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:53:00 +0000

So I was up watching President Obama deliver his speech with his usual eloquence and charisma when I began really paying attention to him. Not just his looks or his mannerisms, but instead to the...

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Adrienne Carlson's Personalized Medicine.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:33:00 +0000

Why Personalized Medicine?There’s no doubt that mankind is advancing in leaps and bounds in all spheres, and when it comes to medicine, advancement is absolutely imperative if we are too keep ahead...

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Tell Me, How do you feel now? Sherpa's RX

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:31:00 +0000

One thing is for sure. In a recent poll of members of the AMA, granted a pretty skewed poll as tons of AMA members cut up their cards this year........random sample of 6000 physicians from the...

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This Just In. 23andMe to go to GPs. I love my readers!!

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:34:00 +0000

That's correct. 23andSergey are going to offer GPs deep discounted SNP scans to General Practitioners in England. As she is interviewed by The Times!!! This comes just DAYS after I said that...

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Sorry so long away

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:43:00 +0000

I haven't been blogging for sometime lately, this is for several reasons. The biggest of which is personal. I apologize to my readers, but we have had some family health issues. When I come back,...

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2D6 Rears its ugly head.....

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:28:00 +0000

Ok, I have been to hell and back......but I am back....... I am working on a video you all may soon love to hate, I am also working on a poster for GAPPNet which you too may also soon love to...

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Ok, Fine, Back to Plavix

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:25:00 +0000

Did anyone else see this? Scripps and Eric Topol are going to be doing testing for 2C19 polymorphisms in their interventional dept. "Scripps physicians will initially offer the genetic tests to...

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Kaiser a protoype for Collins' Aim

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:17:00 +0000

Don't know if anyone had heard about the Kaiser Permanente Biobank? Since Kaiser has millions of lives cared for in a statewide healthcare system, they could easily pound out 500k bio samples...

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A few months late to the party....

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:46:00 +0000

This month's Internal Medicine News has Dr. Patricia Ganz on the cover. I couldn't help but say, "Why does she look familiar???" But then I read and remembered "Few physicians feel prepared to...

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Stated Another Way.......

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Last week I was criticized harshly about the shock and awe I used with the picture of a parasite being passed from an animal and comparing it to what needs to be done with DTC Genome Scans. I was...

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Excuse Me? Harvard and Navigenics? WTF?

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:10:00 +0000

Ok, So I was blown away when I read this juicy little tid bit from Genome Web. NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Navigenics and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston announced today that they...

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Follow up to Yesterday's WTF? Harvard, Navi? and Pfizer???

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:15:00 +0000

So I was thinking about all of this hullabaloo and how Beth Israel Deaconess flipped the script by using non-clinically validated, non medical tests to teach residents about medical genetics..... ...

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Did you get your kit? Thanks Dr. Rob from MedCo

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:08:00 +0000

I love and hate when GenomeWeb scoops me. I love it because I know someone else is out there assessing the field. But the competitive nature in me hates to be scooped......ah well, you can't win them...

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Gluco...Wha? Parkinson's Disease and Glucocerebrosidase mutations.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:12:00 +0000

In 2007 I diagnosed a 74 year old woman with CF. She had a positive sweat test and positive mutation with an intronic mutation as well. I investigated this after she had bronchiectasis and no...

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Away and now back, What did I miss???? 23andme layoffs? Selling Genomes for cheap up next!

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:47:00 +0000

23andSerge has layoffs, big surprise. When Linda left, she had a tribe that left too. I am working on hiring one or 2 and will see what exactly was going on over there......Likely a huge cash...

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Change IS Needed. I agree with William, sometimes.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:48:00 +0000

Over the past day or so I have been engaged with one of my fiercest critics. No a critic of me per se, but a critic of my opinions in the space of Personalized Medicine. We may have a "truce",...

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Good Enough Science? Apparently so at 23andme

noreply@blogger.com (Steve Murphy MD) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:34:00 +0000

"A total of 61 individuals involved in five norovirus outbreaks in Denmark were genotyped at nucleotides 428 and 571 of the FUT2 gene, determining secretor status, i.e., the presence of ABH...

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