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		<title>Way to go CVS Caremark!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just learned that CVS Caremark has decided to put some pharmacogenomics testing in place for a variety of clinical areas, including cancer, cardiovascular disease and HIV.   This is an alliance with Generation Health.   I am a CVS Caremark customer (thank you, Stanford), and I am thrilled to learn that they are doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbaltman.wordpress.com&blog=4742408&post=114&subd=rbaltman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FDA looking for leads in pharmacogenetics.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was excited to see the announcement of the relabeling of clopidogrel (a.k.a. Plavix) by the FDA.   The FDA exerts much of its influence on drug companies and medical practitioners by approving the &#8220;label&#8221; that describes the uses, doses, cautions, and much other information about using a medication.  It is the folded up piece of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbaltman.wordpress.com&blog=4742408&post=108&subd=rbaltman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/fda-looking-for-leads-in-pharmacogenetics/</link>
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		<title>A magazine for biocomputation = BCR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the research projects that I help direct is devoted to improving and disseminating the use of physics-based simulation in biology&#8211;at all levels:  molecular, cellular, tissue and organism.   It is called Simbios (National Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures, http://simbios.stanford.edu/) and I may write about it more in the future.  We have done [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbaltman.wordpress.com&blog=4742408&post=104&subd=rbaltman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/a-magazine-for-biocomputation-bcr/</link>
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		<title>CMS made a mistake in not approving genetics for warfarin.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very disappointed that the federal medical reimbursement folks have not approved the use of genetic tests to make warfarin dosing more precise.    This would be an opportunity for CMS to start the personalized medicine revolution, and to make the public aware that we physicians can do better than guessing in the use of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbaltman.wordpress.com&blog=4742408&post=102&subd=rbaltman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/cms-made-a-mistake-in-not-approving-genetics-for-warfarin/</link>
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		<title>Way to go, Shirley.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My soon-to-be-graduated student, Shirley Wu, had a good day the other day.  First, I signed her PhD dissertation, making it very likely that she will graduate in 2 weeks from Stanford with a PhD in Biomedical Informatics.  It was a great thesis on machine learning methods to detect functions in protein structures.   An early paper [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbaltman.wordpress.com&blog=4742408&post=100&subd=rbaltman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/way-to-go-shirley/</link>
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		<title>Sorry for inactivity:  distracted by stimulus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize that I have not posted more recently.  I, like virtually every other biomedical scientist in the United States, have been busy writing grant proposals for the NIH portion of the federal government&#8217;s stimulus package.  There are a number of calls for proposals, and part of the fun in the last month has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbaltman.wordpress.com&blog=4742408&post=97&subd=rbaltman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/sorry-for-inactivity-distracted-by-stimulus/</link>
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		<title>Signing reviews and even publishing them?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shirley Wu pointed out an interesting entry by Luis Von Ahn arguing that reviews should be published.  This comes to me right after an interesting discussion with a colleague who routinely signs his reviews (which are typically done anonymously) so that the authors know who he is.  Both make the point that by either publishing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbaltman.wordpress.com&blog=4742408&post=92&subd=rbaltman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/signing-reviews-and-even-publishing-them/</link>
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		<title>Genetic privacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you can see from my slides in the&#8216;Translational Bioinformatics&#8216; posting, I highlighted three papers that I think create an interesting dance of ideas.   The first one from Homer et al showed that IF you have the genotype data from a single individual and a mixture of up to 1000 others, then you can determine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbaltman.wordpress.com&blog=4742408&post=85&subd=rbaltman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/genetic-privacy/</link>
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		<title>Translational bioinformatics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I define translational bioinformatics as the field where bioinformatics meets clinical medicine.  Work in translational bioinformatics will typically include informatics methodolgy, clinical concepts (drugs, diseases, symptoms, diagnosis), and molecules (genes, proteins, DNA, RNA, small molecules, drugs).   The Second AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics just ended yesterday, and I predict great things for this meeting&#8211;it has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbaltman.wordpress.com&blog=4742408&post=80&subd=rbaltman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/translational-bioinformatics/</link>
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		<title>Call for great translational bioinformatics papers 3/08-3/09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
I have agreed once again to give a talk at the AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics ) on the &#8220;year in review&#8221; highlighting some of the most important papers in our field of translational bioinformatics.  Last year&#8217;s talk is online.
I am writing to request that you nominate papers that you think are important for me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rbaltman.wordpress.com&blog=4742408&post=75&subd=rbaltman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/call-for-great-translational-bioinformatics-papers-308-309/</link>
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