Genetics and Health in Washington DC
Hi everyone!
Sorry I’ve been incommunicado these last two weeks. My day time job has taken up every waking hour plus some! Anyway, I’m in Washington right now enjoying the Advamed Medical Devices conference. Jeez, these delegates are geniuses! I’ve seen the future of diagnostics and it looks gooood!
As a taster I’ve seen nano devices able to deliver drugs to solid tumours only, sparing the good tissue; chip technology able to test for all infectious diseases in one go; stents to prevent epidurals going wrong; tests to identify ectopic pregnancies early; tests for early diagnosis of heart disease, devices to make surgeons jobs easier etc etc etc. Wow! I have to stress this conference is all about tests/devices that still need to go through clinical trials so they won’t be out for a couple of years.
I’ll be writing some more about these advances once I’m back home.
Take care!
Penny
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3 opinions for Genetics and Health in Washington DC
Fabio
Oct 6, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Hello everybody it’s my first time here. I’d like say something: how will we deal with genetics? Have you ever thought? Have you ever heard a news about genetic innovation and stopped a sec to wonder: how will we live within few years? I don’t mean being possimistic, i’m pretty far from that but just think about it. Are we going to win cancer and, next to it, get discriminated by genes?
Penny
Oct 14, 2007 at 10:10 am
Hi Fabio
Now I’m blogging under my own name, I’ll be able to answer these questions through the blog using my first hand experiences.
Keep sharing your comments.
Elaine
diane joseph
Jul 2, 2008 at 3:06 pm
please call me
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