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Public opinion on biobanking privacy - Trust in Academia

"Survey correspondents consistently were more worried about government researchers and agencies accessing data from the cohort study than about academic and medical researchers doing so... consistent with several other studies that observed that people are willing to share medical information with academics than with governments or with industries... implies informed-consent documents should clarify, to the extent possible, what types of researchers will have access to the data."

However:
"Privacy concerns are not strongly related to willingness to join a research study"

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Computational Biology & target networks

[late edit (as of Nov 5, 09) - just heard in a talk on data collection/management/interpretation that personalized medicine will never exist. all of this will just go towards better targeting of drugs. maybe it's more than semantics? not so sure]

A visualization for drug targeting in drug discovery, which is a little bit of a big deal. This + genome sequencing = future of personalized medicine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_discovery

This image comes from: MJ Keiser et al. Nature 000, 1-7 (2009) doi:10.1038/nature08506

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Newly approved drugs(FDA September-October 2009)

• Ofatumumab
• CD20-directed cytolytic monoclonal antibody indicated for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
• Pazopanib
• kinase inhibitor indicated for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma
• Cervarix
  
• human papillomavirus bivalent (types 16 and 18)
• preventative cervical cancer vaccine for the prevention of cervical pre-cancers
  and cervical cancer associated with oncogenic human papillomavirus
  (HPV) types 16 and 18 in girls and young women (aged 10-25)
• Berinert (C1-esterase inhibitor (human)
• plasma derived C1 Esterase Inhibitor indicated for the treatment of acute abdominal or facial attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) in adult and adolescent patients.
• Ustekinumab
• human monoclonal antibody for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
• Pralatrexate
• folate analogue metabolic inhibitor indicated for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL)
• Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine
•  is an inactivated influenza virus vaccine indicated for active immunization of persons ages 18 years of age and older against influenza disease caused by pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus
• Telavancin
• bactericidal, once-daily injectable antibiotic for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI) caused by susceptible Gram-positive bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, both methicillin-resistant (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible (MSSA) strains.
• Bepotastine
• antihistamine and mast cell stabilizer for treatment of the symptoms of allergic conjunctivitis.
• Guanfacine
• a nonstimulant selective alpha-2A-receptor agonist for the treatment of children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Source- www.drugs.com

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Dont be scared by its looks!This is a boon to medicine.Tell me how.

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You Think You are So Clever

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