Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy: hope or hype!

Pharmacogenomics: Hope or Hype?

Much has been made of the potential for personalnot altruistic companies. Incyte Inc. alone holds US ised medicine, where a genomic screen of a patient patents on more than 350 genes and has an estimated could determine which drugs will work and be free of 6,500 applications pending with 10 more applied for side effects in an individual. Much of the hope based each week [3]. They hope to make p...

Genital herpes: hype or hope?

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Personalized medicine: hope or hype?

Medicine has always been personalized. For years, physicians have incorporated environmental, behavioural, and genetic factors that affect disease and drug response into patient management decisions. However, until recently, the 'genetic' data took the form of family history and self-reported race/ethnicity. As genome sequencing declines in cost, the availability of specific genomic information...

Community Informatics: Hope or Hype

Community informatics is a promising strategy for taking advantage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to further goals of community development. It is important, however, that proponents of this approach recognize that it is based on the assumption that technology in itself can lead to positive social development. This "techno-utopianism" is subject to various critiques, which...