At a minimum, then, Climategate ought to have prompted some soul-searching among climate scientists about the need for greater openness, less politics and a more balanced treatment of the data.
C. will regulate the treatment of our personal data is certainly a hot one on the Hill.
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Swiss Re argues that competition on price and quality is rare because of a lack of data on the outcome of treatment.
We know from an array of treatment admission information and Federal data that marijuana use is a significant source for voluntary drug treatment admissions and visits to emergency rooms.
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In the absence of this data, it is impossible to state that one form of treatment is better.
Other key patents IBM obtained last year were for predicting traffic problems by using GPS and communicating the delays to drives, finding patterns across disparate data sources and an invention for enabling analysis of medical data from multiple sources to improve the research, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
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But diagnosis, management and treatment of the more complicated cases or assiduous epidemiological data collection might not be such money-spinners.
Clinics provide high-level data on diagnoses and treatment outcomes of the conditions we see - something GPs or private health providers are not required to do.
Phase 2 testing of elesclomol resulted in surprising data indicating that the compound might be an effective treatment for metastatic melanoma, a form of skin cancer that was notoriously resistant to treatment.
As sequencing costs continue to fall and more doctors start to use the information for patient treatment, it looks like a lot more of this data will make its home in the cloud.
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With its large population, Carolinas generates large quantities of data that lets its analysts look at populations with asthma or diabetes and monitor the effects of treatment programs.
As CEO and founder of GNS Healthcare, I oversee a team of mathematicians, biologists, and data scientists as they crunch and decode healthcare data to unlock the mysteries of what treatment will work for specific patients.
In a development that greatly bolsters its standing in the cystic fibrosis market, Vertex Pharmaceuticals late yesterday released data showing a combination of its existing Kalydeco treatment and an experimental medication called VX-661 greatly improved patient breathing.
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My patients are my number one priority, and when I am looking to treat a diagnosis I try to look at all the data at hand and extrapolate the best treatment instead of solely adhering to what the current 'standard' of treatment may be.
They are given accurate data about the likelihood that any given cycle of treatment will work.
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But the true extent of the problem is largely unknown because there are no official figures on waiting lists for sperm and egg donation around the country or data on the number of British patients travelling abroad for treatment.
Moreover, this process could result in a pool of real-world data that could help in future research or treatment.
To glean this knowledge faster and to drive better treatment and payment decisions with it we need to build repositories of patient data and tissue samples and link them worldwide.
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One thing that could settle that matter is direct data showing that Erbitux is equal or better than Avastin in initial treatment of colon cancer.
Data presented to the meeting in Turkey showed this affected the chances of treatment.
It also offers more data to support the notion that very early treatment after HIV exposure can prevent establishment of infection in some populations.
Vanderbilt University's director of the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), believes the new data adds to what's already been known about ASD in other parts of the world -- that autism is not rare.
New Scottish government data suggested 98% of cancer patients waited no more than 31 days for their first treatment.
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The presence of so many confounding factors makes it hard to assess the general effectiveness of any given treatment unless, like Dr Nallamothu and his colleagues, you have access to a great deal of data.
One big question: would the limited data Sarepta has so far collected from a very small clinical trial of its drug eteplirsen, a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy that is caused by a very specific type of mutation, be enough to warrant filing with the Food and Drug Administration and perhaps even gain approval?
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