Gene-Based Prescribing Is Here. Are Providers Ready?

Fingerprint Authentication is here, but are we ready for what it brings?

Almost every 2016 flagship mobile phone, whether Android or iOS-based, is set to come with an integrated fingerprint reader. The convenience benefits of fingerprint readers are clear to users, but is the underlying technology really ready for widespread adoption? This article explores some of the background of the challenge of secure user authentication on mobile devices, as well as recent weak...

Gene therapy for restenosis: are we ready?

The application of gene therapy techniques to the clinical problem of coronary restenosis has generated tremendous attention and enthusiasm. Use of gene transfer technology to prevent a common intractable illness would represent a watershed event for human gene therapy. However, the time is not yet right to initiate gene therapy trials for restenosis. The biology of restenosis is incompletely u...

The World is Changing – Are We Ready?

It is clear that there is an ongoing revolution in medicine as cost and regulatory pressures begin to intersect with our clinical responsibilities for the care of patients. In the past, particularly in the area of in vitro diagnostics, all that was required for approval for clinical use of biomarkers was an analytically robust measuring system, a reasonable analytic validation, a modicum of cli...

Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?

The year 2016 could turn out to be a turning point for global health, new political realities and global insecurities will test governance and financing mechanisms in relation to both people and planet. But most importantly political factors such as the global power shift and “the rise of the rest” will define the future of global health. A new mix of health inequity and security challenges has...

Ready or not, here they come.