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Is Evidence-based Medicine the Enemy of Genomic Medicine?

hands pulling on DNA with DNA in background

A general practitioner recently writing in the BMJ, said that evidence-based medicine is polluted with “fraud, sham diagnosis, short term data, poor regulation, surrogate ends, questionnaires that can’t be validated, and statistically significant but clinically irrelevant outcomes”, all leading to “overdiagnosis and misery”. In more temperate tones, Goldberger and Buxton recently suggested in a JAMA Read More >

February 13, 2014 by Alison Stewart and Muin J. Khoury, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

evidence-based medicine, genomics

genetics, genomics

Guidelines We Can Trust are Crucial for the Successful Implementation of Genomic Medicine

puzzle piece labeled Guide fitting into another piece with DNA

In a previous blog post, Michael Douglas and David Dotson from our office asked the question “So what are health care providers to do today when considering ordering a genomic test to diagnose, prevent or ameliorate a medical condition?” If we set aside the “genomic” bit of this for a moment, and think about how Read More >

February 13, 2014 by Alison Stewart and Muin J. Khoury, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

genomics

genetics, genomics