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STRATEGY AWRY? "Our major health care institutions—medical schools, groups of specialist physicians, general hospitals, research organizations—have together overshot the level of care actually needed or used by the vast majority of patients. Indeed, most players in today’s health care system are in a lockstep march toward the most scientifically demanding challenges."" " http://lnkd.in/bM85CFG View in LinkedIn

DISRUPTION CALL. "Ten years ago, HBS professor Clay Christensen first examined the dearth of innovation in the health care sector that’s largely still unmet today. The U.S. health care industry is in crisis. A whole host of disruptive innovations could end the crisis...we’ll be able to build a new system that’s characterized by lower costs, higher quality, and greater convenience than could ever be achieved under the old system."" " http://lnkd.in/bM85CFG View in LinkedIn

REMOTE DIGITAL SENSORS IN HEALTHCARE, including: vital signs (blood pressure, oxygenation, temperature, respiration, pulse etc), drug compliance monitoring, digestible physiological sensors, ingestable gastrointestinal scanners, hydration scanners. Early detection, continuous monitoring and rehabilitation. Remote videoconference diagnoses and consultations. Dial your doc!" " http://lnkd.in/bXk3g8E View in LinkedIn

DOC IN A BOX? "Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems as well as a partner in a couple venture capital firms believes that patients would be better off getting diagnosed by a machine than by doctors. Creating such a system was a simple problem to solve. A good machine learning system not only would be cheaper, more accurate and objective, but also effectively replace 80 percent of doctors simply by being better than the average doctor."" " http://lnkd.in/bfJ7nsp View in LinkedIn

HOW MOBILE TECH WILL DISRUPT HEALTHCARE for remote monitoring to reduce vast visit healthcare costs "mobile health's relationship (will be) with the burgeoning industry in wearable fitness and activity trackers." In addition, personalized medicine will be patient-centric and knowledge-empowering. " " http://lnkd.in/brtK3kr View in LinkedIn

THE NEW TOBACCO. "A pledge by food manufacturers to cut saturated fat levels is "a drop in the ocean" in the fight against obesity. Morrisons, Subway and Nestle are among firms signed up to the voluntary "responsibility deal" between industry and government. Almost half of the food manufacturing and retail industry - based on market share - has signed up to this latest pledge to reduce the amount of saturated fat in products. "It now lacks credibility and can be seen as a feeble attempt by the industry to save face."(Prof Ashton). Sugar? Salt? " " http://lnkd.in/bY3UpAD View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO REVIEW." " http://lnkd.in/bz8_vy9 View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO AS THE BIG BET. "UK science minister announced that Imperial will host SynbiCITE, an innovation and knowledge centre backed by £24 million from government and industry, which will develop commercial applications for synthetic biology. The UK chancellor said last year that synthetic biology is one of eight key technologies that can expect greater investment, as a research strategy aimed at boosting the stuttering economy. The global market for synthetic biology products will top £7 billion."" " http://lnkd.in/bEaUHjY View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC ARTEMESININ was a breathtaking story. "The drug is the first triumph of the nascent field of synthetic biology and will be a lifesaver for the hundreds of millions of people in developing countries who each year contract malaria." Sanofi, Amyris, One World Health and the B&MG Foundation were the driving forces. I was lucky enough to be there. " " http://lnkd.in/bAGJV9C View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY is "genetic engineering on steroids. Where biotechnology of the past used cut-and-paste tools to introduce single genes into DNA, we're looking at introducing networks of genes and other elements under regulated control to rewire the internal workings" of the organism."" " http://lnkd.in/bAGS9Ji View in LinkedIn