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The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.
Eric Topol
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Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.
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Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
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Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.
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About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.
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For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.
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Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
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The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'
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Seeing your glucose every minute on your phone, it really changes your lifestyle. You ask yourself, 'Do I really need that piece of cake? No, because I don't want to stress out my pancreas.'
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The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.
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For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?
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There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.
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