Obamacare is main roadblock to cancer ‘moonshot’
Originally published in CNBC By Florence Comite, M.D. President Barack Obama has promised a “moonshot” to cure cancer, but the biggest obstacle to that goal could be his…
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What Rob Kardashian Should Know About Diabetes
Originally published in Huffington Post By Florence Comite, MD Look a bit beyond the tabloid headlines about reality TV star Rob Kardashian’s diabetes scare, and you…
7 Mind-Blowing Digital Health Tools That Could Disrupt Health Care in 2016
Originally published in Huffington Post By Florence Comite, MD The phrase “Brave New World” has become one of the most often used clichés in medical technology in…
What Theranos and 23andMe teach us
Originally published in PE Hub By Florence Comite, MD Whether it’s Uber transforming the taxi and limousine business or Airbnb shaking up hospitality, we have become used to upstarts disrupting…
Precision medicine ideas for VCs and angel investors
Originally published in Venture Beat By Florence Comite Companies from Apple to genetic testing company 23andMe regularly hit the headlines for their ability to enable aspects…
Some Doctors DO Want Your Fitbit Data
Originally published in Venture Beat By Florence Comite, MD Your doctor may not want your Fitbit numbers, or so read a recent VentureBeat story. Perhaps many of…
Some doctors DO want your Fitbit data
Originally published in Venture Beat By Florence Comite, M.D. Your doctor may not want your Fitbit numbers, or so read a recent VentureBeat story. Perhaps many of us…
Mark Cuban is half right on blood tests
Originally published in CNBC By Florence Comite, M.D. Quarterly reports soon may take on a new meaning thanks to Mark Cuban. The billionaire investor sparked a Twitter storm…
Precision medicine’s bold leap
Originally published in New York Times By Florence Comite, MD Re “‘Moonshot’ medicine will let us down” (New York Times Opinion, Jan. 30): Michael J….
Precision medicine takes genetic mapping to the next level
Originally published in CNBC By Florence Comite, M.D. In the past ten years, analyzing a single individual’s genome has gone from a substantial scientific effort, one…