Watson has been gaining knowledge in the field of medicine, and Cleveland Clinic with IBM recognized the opportunity for Watson to interact with medical students to help explore a wide variety of learning challenges facing the medical industry today.
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An essential element to moving forward in the field of personalized medicine is cloud computing technology.
"My current research interests lie in the field of regenerative medicine, which, simply put, means growing tissues in the laboratory with the aim of safely implanting them when the body cannot heal itself, " he explained.
"It's an interesting and rigorous study in the field of complementary medicine, and an important step forward in improving quality of care for the 70 percent of patients who undergo chemotherapy and experience nausea and vomiting, " says Dr. Douglas Blayney, president-elect at the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
To be sure, around the turn of the millennium, significant fanfare surrounded personalized medicine, especially in the field of genetics.
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Dr. Jardine, a renowned Chiropractor, health and fitness expert, and innovator in the field of physical and rehabilitative medicine, is the man behind the creative designs seen on Olympic athletes, including the bizarre (but effective) use by the athletes pictured in this article.
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To get the most up to date and comprehensive information, I spoke with an expert in the field, Dr. Joseph Murray, professor of medicine and consultant in gastroenterology and immunology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota.
"Bob is one of the movers and shakers in this whole field of regenerative medicine, " says Michael Lysaght, director of Brown University's Center for Biomedical Engineering.
"For the first time, we've shown that personalised medicine can work in the field of childhood asthma, " professor Mukhopadhyay says.
One of the pioneers of this field was the late Robert Ledley whose book on the Use of Computers in Biology and Medicine was published in 1965.
Along the way to becoming a neurosurgeon he faced other obstacles, including the belief that perhaps a young man born in Mexico could not possess the intelligence or ability to serve patients in such a demanding field of medicine.
The lack of interest in general internal medicine is understandable, say those in the field who have researched the topic.
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"It is the least technologically advanced field of medicine in many ways, " he says.
Though we are in the earliest days of developing the emerging field of synthetic biology, in the coming years, it promises to have massive impact on everything from business to medicine and energy to warfare.
But Macchiarini said making these first artificial organs viable in patients opens doors for future transplants through the relatively new field of regenerative medicine.
Brain plasticity, the field that Merzenich helped pioneer, is now one of the hottest areas in medicine, one with hugely positive implications for an aging society.
Unfortunately, this is a great example of the realities between personal medicine in the media and how it works in the field.
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"Those of us in the field really see this as a breakthrough moment, " said Suzanne Topalian, a researcher at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and lead author of one of the studies.
To market its medicine in a crowded field, Lilly is emphasizing that Cymbalta helps not only with the mental symptoms of depression but also with physical aches and pains that often accompany the disease.
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