READY FOR THE BIG LEAGUES

Are we ready for the next big thing?

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 15 June 2009 190 12 687-688 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2009 www.mja.com.au Health care reform system has been adept in responding to technologic our track record in responding to sociological chan and this gives cause for concern for the future. Health care use varies with age, with health care trated in t e last few years of life — typical...

Are you ready for the era of ‘big data’?

When the executive convened a group of senior leaders to dig into the competitor’s practices, they found that the challenge ran deeper than they had imagined. The competitor had made massive investments in its ability to collect, integrate, and analyze data from each store and every sales unit and had used this ability to run myriad real-world experiments. At the same time, it had linked this i...

Is dementia research ready for big data approaches?

The "big data" paradigm has gained a lot of attention recently, in particular in those areas of biomedicine where we face clear unmet medical needs. Coined as a new paradigm for complex problem solving, big data approaches seem to open promising perspectives in particular for a better understanding of complex diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. In this commentary, we will ...

20,000 leagues under the sea.

000 Leagues under the Sea

Just a small contingent of Pharmamar’s staff, which is, with a total of 262 employees, one of the main biotechnological companies in Spain. Ph ot os (5 ): P ha rm am ar Like Captain Nemo, the mysterious character created by Jules Verne, Jose María Fernández Sousa-Faro decided to seek his fortune in the depths of the oceans. His reasons were not, however, as obscure as Nemo’s. He had inherited t...