Innovation and Research
Last night was the first meeting of the Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) Biomedical Innovation and Research Council, of which I am privileged to be a member. The meeting was held at the recently christened Rudy L. Ruggles Biomedical Research Institute in Danbury, CT. The Institute aims to advance the health of our community by […]
Gene-editing Gets Major Funding
Last year, I wrote about a team of Chinese scientists having received ethical approval to perform a clinical trial of gene-editing. The goal was to test whether gene-editing may be a potential cure for cancer. The technology used for the trial is called CRISPR/Cas9, not exactly a household name. CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Cas9 stands for […]
Notes From The Harvest Summit: The Future of Cancer
On Friday (11/10), I attended the Harvest Summit at the La Crema wine estate in the Russian River Valley of California. I promised subsequent posts to share some of what I learned. You can find the prior posts about the event by scanning through my blog at johnpatrick.com. This post from my Summit notes is about […]
Test Your Blood At Home
Patients who are at high risk or require frequent blood testing probably find going to the lab or doctor office an inconvenience. Athelas, a Mountain View, California based company has announced a new technology which may be a real game changer. Their new product has been clinically validated for use in the patient’s home. The Athelas […]
Smoking Tobacco Kills 1,200 Americans Every Day
I started smoking experimentally when I was 16, and then more while in college. When I graduated in 1967, a much older, but close family friend, told me he was diagnosed with emphysema. His doctor said if he didn’t stop smoking, he would die. He quit, me too. I began to realize smoking was harmful […]
