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How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine

by Trisha Greenhalgh  · 18 Nov 2010  · 321pp  · 97,661 words

;309(6961):1041–6. 27 Lillie EO, Patay B, Diamant J, et al. The n-of-1 clinical trial: the ultimate strategy for individualizing medicine? Personalized Medicine 2011;8(2):161–73. 28 Moore A, Derry S, Eccleston C, et al. Expect analgesic failure; pursue analgesic success. BMJ: British Medical Journal 2013

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman  · 4 Sep 2023  · 444pp  · 117,770 words

organism by using bioinformatics and computational biology to see how the organism works holistically; such efforts could be the foundation for a new era of personalized medicine. Before long the idea of being treated in a generic way will seem positively medieval; everything, from the kind of care we receive to the

Critical: Science and Stories From the Brink of Human Life

by Matt Morgan  · 29 May 2019  · 218pp  · 70,323 words

machines such as IBM’s supercomputer Watson, even this human integration based on knowledge and experience can be replicated.’ Goetz, L. H. & Schork, N. J. Personalized medicine: motivation, challenges, and progress. Fertil. Steril. 109, 952–963 (2018). ‘. . . the first weekend of March saw sixteen weather-related deaths as the heaviest snowfall in

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

by Klaus Schwab  · 11 Jan 2016  · 179pp  · 43,441 words

the lack of an organ)98 – Prosthetic printing: limb/body part replacements – Hospitals printing for each patient requiring surgery (e.g. splints, casts, implants, screws) – Personalized medicine: 3D printing growing fastest where each customer needs a slightly different version of a body part (e.g. a crown for a tooth) – Printing components

Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane

by Brett King  · 5 May 2016  · 385pp  · 111,113 words

manage our health and lifespan in the future. In this chapter, we’ll consider how technology is helping us improve our own biology using genetics, personalised medicine and the principles that have emerged in the quantified self (QS) movement. In chapter 6, we’ll look at the use of technology to enhance

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou  · 15 Feb 2015  · 400pp  · 88,647 words

leverage the continuous manufacturing platform both to strengthen its existing business model – by producing traditional drugs faster, better and cheaper – and to manufacture and deliver personalised medicine – the holy grail of health care – cost-effectively in the long term. Novartis’s rivals, such as Amgen, Genzyme and GSK, are also investing heavily

The End of Illness

by David B. Agus  · 15 Oct 2012  · 433pp  · 106,048 words

Viterbi School of Engineering and heads USC’s Westside Cancer Center and the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. He is the cofounder of two pioneering personalized medicine companies, Navigenics and Applied Proteomics. Dr. Agus is an international leader in cancer care and new technologies and approaches for personalized health care and chairs

: get to know yourself. I don’t mean that in a cosmic or purely psychological way. I’m a big believer in what’s called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system, and unique conditions. We are finally entering

is for you to combat affliction Y successfully with no side effects. That’s the promise that personalized medicine has to offer. But, once again, you won’t be able to enjoy the benefits of personalized medicine until you get up close and personal with yourself. Nothing about health is one-size-fits-all

than he’s ever treated any other human before, but the model will say that, for you, that’s the proper treatment. This kind of personalized medicine isn’t as far off into the future as you might think. It’s already gaining momentum in the field of psychiatry, which is historically

pick based on their results, which is part of a first wave of long-awaited pharmacogenomic progress—pharmacogenomics, you’ll recall, is the subfield of personalized medicine that focuses on how people with different DNA variants respond to drugs. The DNA tests I referred to previously perform pharmacogenomic tests to a variety

measure several variables that define the true “state” of the body through technologies such as proteomics, we’ll be able to realize the promise of personalized medicine. With the comprehensive view that proteomics can give us, we can start to manipulate that picture—and create a picture of health. As doctors, we

benefit from this kind of technology. But what I’m offering is more than a proposition because I do believe we’ll get there, and personalized medicine will involve technologies that reflect an amalgam of all the sciences, including computer engineering. To propel this movement forward, I believe that we’ll need

stakeholders—not the government and not the doctors. So how do we do this? I believe this will be achieved by our taking charge of personalized medicine, and by creating the quantitative metrics we need to do so. The first baby step rests with each of us: we each need to collect

disease, 41 weight and, 49 See also specific condition chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), 203–4 Church, Timothy S., 222 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center: personalized medicine at, 118, 119 circadian rhythm, 240–43, 246, 247 circulatory system, 16, 213 Cisco Systems, 283, 284 Cleveland Clinic antioxidant studies at, 165–66 family

hierarchy of, 279–80 importance of keeping, 251 incentives and, 280–87 Internet as source for, 278–79, 286, 287 personal metrics and, 286–87 personalized medicine and, 280, 286–87 privacy issues and, 276–77, 278, 282, 284 sharing of, 274, 275–87 Medicare, 285 medications. See drugs medicine advances in

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Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair and Matthew D. Laplante  · 9 Sep 2019

treatments will work best to prevent those diseases from developing in the first place. As Julie Johnson, the director of the University of Florida’s Personalized Medicine Program, has pointed out, we are about to enter a world in which our genomes will be sequenced, stored, and already red-lighted for treatments

100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family And

by Sonia Arrison  · 22 Aug 2011  · 381pp  · 78,467 words

use of longevity technologies because health technologies are fast becoming information technologies.44 As we learned in Chapter 2, genomics, which will help usher in personalized medicine, already shows positive signs because costs are dropping at lightning speeds. “Biotech has gone exponential, like Moore’s law,” notes Andrew Hessel, a well-known

the $10M Archon Genomics X PRIZE to drive rapid human genome sequencing. This prize and the resulting technology can help bring about an era of personalized medicine.”29 Larry King goes straight to the point when he asks, “What if we could learn how to stop heart disease from happening? What if

is a genomics company that was cofounded by Brin’s biologist wife, Anne Wojcicki, and has gone a long way toward popularizing the idea of personalized medicine. “Spit parties” are one of the cute marketing techniques the company uses to get the public interested in thinking about their DNA and how it

Ahmed Patience Patterns/patternists Pedophilia Perls, Dr. Thomas Perrott, Kevin Perry, Daniel “Personalized Life Extension Conference: Anti-Aging Strategies for a Long Healthy Life” (conference) Personalized medicine Peterson, Christine Peterson, Dr. Michael Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends survey on aging Phoenix, Chris Picture

Think Like an Engineer: Use Systematic Thinking to Solve Everyday Challenges & Unlock the Inherent Values in Them

by Mushtak Al-Atabi  · 26 Aug 2014  · 204pp  · 66,619 words

our doctors to address a given disease is often the same. The development of equipment for fast genetic profiling and organismspecific antibiotics can help revolutionise personalised medicine, and biomedical engineers are expected to play a key role in this. Engineers can also contribute towards the creation of medicines and treatments that target

The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future

by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever  · 2 Apr 2017  · 181pp  · 52,147 words

The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands

by Eric Topol  · 6 Jan 2015  · 588pp  · 131,025 words

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

by Robert Wachter  · 7 Apr 2015  · 309pp  · 114,984 words

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

by Michael Specter  · 14 Apr 2009  · 281pp  · 79,958 words

Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care

by Jonathan Bush and Stephen Baker  · 14 May 2014  · 238pp  · 68,914 words

Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing

by Kevin Davies  · 5 Oct 2020  · 741pp  · 164,057 words

The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

by Eben Kirksey  · 10 Nov 2020  · 599pp  · 98,564 words

Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal

by Erik Vance  · 14 Sep 2016  · 266pp  · 85,265 words

The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals Its Secrets

by Michael Blastland  · 3 Apr 2019  · 290pp  · 82,871 words

Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science

by James Poskett  · 22 Mar 2022  · 564pp  · 168,696 words

How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy

by F. Perry Wilson  · 24 Jan 2023  · 286pp  · 92,521 words

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 9 Sep 2024  · 566pp  · 169,013 words

The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (And Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor

by Andy Kessler  · 12 Oct 2009  · 361pp  · 86,921 words

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams  · 28 Sep 2010  · 552pp  · 168,518 words

Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action; A Memoir

by David Fajgenbaum  · 9 Sep 2019

Dances With Wolves

by Michael Blake  · 24 Jan 2011  · 332pp  · 90,186 words

Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance

by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna  · 23 May 2016  · 437pp  · 113,173 words

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

by Eric Siegel  · 19 Feb 2013  · 502pp  · 107,657 words

You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--From Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between

by Lee Gutkind  · 13 Aug 2012  · 347pp  · 90,234 words

Data-Ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

by Steve Lohr  · 10 Mar 2015  · 239pp  · 70,206 words

50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know

by Richard Watson  · 5 Nov 2013  · 219pp  · 63,495 words

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/or Ruin Everything

by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith  · 16 Oct 2017  · 398pp  · 105,032 words

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie  · 1 Mar 2018

Collaborative Society

by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska  · 18 Feb 2020  · 187pp  · 50,083 words

As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Work, Health & Wealth

by Juan Enriquez  · 15 Feb 2001  · 239pp  · 45,926 words

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

by Amy Webb  · 5 Mar 2019  · 340pp  · 97,723 words

The Numerati

by Stephen Baker  · 11 Aug 2008  · 265pp  · 74,000 words

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

by Kevin Kelly  · 6 Jun 2016  · 371pp  · 108,317 words

The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

by Diane Ackerman  · 9 Sep 2014  · 380pp  · 104,841 words

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman  · 24 Feb 2015  · 677pp  · 206,548 words

The Industries of the Future

by Alec Ross  · 2 Feb 2016  · 364pp  · 99,897 words

Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs

by Andy Kessler  · 1 Feb 2011  · 272pp  · 64,626 words

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 1 Jan 2011  · 447pp  · 141,811 words

Big Data and the Welfare State: How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity

by Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm  · 18 May 2022

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--And Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

by Christopher M. Palmer Md  · 15 Nov 2022  · 402pp  · 107,908 words

Never Bet Against Occam: Mast Cell Activation Disease and the Modern Epidemics of Chronic Illness and Medical Complexity

by Lawrence B. Afrin M. D., Kendra Neilsen Myles and Kristi Posival  · 15 Jan 2016

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and Be Happy

by Pistono, Federico  · 14 Oct 2012  · 245pp  · 64,288 words

Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing

by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman  · 20 Nov 2012  · 307pp  · 92,165 words

Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

by Melanie Swan  · 22 Jan 2014  · 271pp  · 52,814 words

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Mar 2014  · 565pp  · 151,129 words

The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . And What You Can Do Right Now

by Sergey Young  · 23 Aug 2021  · 326pp  · 88,968 words

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

by Orly Lobel  · 17 Oct 2022  · 370pp  · 112,809 words

The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey Into the Dark Side of the Brain

by James Fallon  · 30 Oct 2013

Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI

by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson  · 15 Jan 2018  · 523pp  · 61,179 words

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts

by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind  · 24 Aug 2015  · 742pp  · 137,937 words

The Lucky Years: How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health

by David B. Agus  · 29 Dec 2015  · 346pp  · 92,984 words

Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

by Eric Topol  · 1 Jan 2019  · 424pp  · 114,905 words

The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--And How We Can Get There

by Vincent T. Devita, Jr., M. D. and Elizabeth Devita-Raeburn  · 3 Nov 2015  · 386pp  · 114,405 words

Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive History's Most Iconic Extinct Creature

by Ben Mezrich  · 3 Jul 2017

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale  · 14 May 2020  · 1,172pp  · 114,305 words

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

What Technology Wants

by Kevin Kelly  · 14 Jul 2010  · 476pp  · 132,042 words

Tomorrowland: Our Journey From Science Fiction to Science Fact

by Steven Kotler  · 11 May 2015  · 294pp  · 80,084 words

The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman  · 1 Nov 2014  · 336pp  · 93,672 words

The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides

by Jenny Kleeman  · 13 Mar 2024  · 334pp  · 96,342 words

A Short Guide to a Long Life

by David B. Agus  · 7 Jan 2014  · 100pp  · 28,911 words

The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 14 May 2014  · 372pp  · 92,477 words

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen  · 22 Apr 2013  · 525pp  · 116,295 words

European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics Are in a Mess - and How to Put Them Right

by Philippe Legrain  · 22 Apr 2014  · 497pp  · 150,205 words

Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake  · 4 Apr 2022  · 338pp  · 85,566 words

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon

by Rosa Brooks  · 8 Aug 2016  · 548pp  · 147,919 words

I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict

by Kenneth Payne  · 16 Jun 2021  · 339pp  · 92,785 words

Big Data Analytics: Turning Big Data Into Big Money

by Frank J. Ohlhorst  · 28 Nov 2012  · 133pp  · 42,254 words

Warnings

by Richard A. Clarke  · 10 Apr 2017  · 428pp  · 121,717 words

The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design

by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth  · 3 Oct 2019

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning

by Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris  · 6 Mar 2007  · 233pp  · 67,596 words

Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning

by Tom Vanderbilt  · 5 Jan 2021  · 312pp  · 92,131 words

Brexit and Ireland: The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response

by Tony Connelly  · 4 Oct 2017  · 356pp  · 112,271 words

Doing Data Science: Straight Talk From the Frontline

by Cathy O'Neil and Rachel Schutt  · 8 Oct 2013  · 523pp  · 112,185 words

Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

by John Brockman  · 19 Feb 2019  · 339pp  · 94,769 words

The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social

by Steffen Mau  · 12 Jun 2017  · 254pp  · 69,276 words

Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life

by Alan B. Krueger  · 3 Jun 2019

In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's

by Joseph Jebelli  · 30 Oct 2017  · 294pp  · 87,429 words

Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

by Nessa Carey  · 5 Mar 2015  · 357pp  · 98,853 words

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

by Rolf Potts  · 24 Dec 2002  · 168pp  · 47,972 words

Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder, and Going Global

by Rebecca Fannin  · 2 Sep 2019  · 269pp  · 70,543 words

Drugs Without the Hot Air

by David Nutt  · 30 May 2012  · 605pp  · 110,673 words

Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies

by Charles de Ganahl Koch  · 14 Sep 2015  · 261pp  · 74,471 words

10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

by Alanna Collen  · 4 May 2015  · 372pp  · 111,573 words

Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

by Matthew Cobb  · 6 Jul 2015  · 608pp  · 150,324 words

The Future of Technology

by Tom Standage  · 31 Aug 2005

Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato  · 31 Jul 2016  · 370pp  · 102,823 words

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure

by Tim Harford  · 1 Jun 2011  · 459pp  · 103,153 words

P53: The Gene That Cracked the Cancer Code

by Sue Armstrong  · 20 Nov 2014  · 260pp  · 84,847 words

Vassal State

by Angus Hanton  · 25 Mar 2024  · 277pp  · 81,718 words

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars

by Rowan Hooper  · 15 Jan 2020  · 285pp  · 86,858 words