Research and Health – Human Limits

It is finally here! Our data packed and evidence based book on major issues affecting the health of the U.S. population, including smoking, diet, physical activity, and the policy options to move us in...

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Idea Bubbles & Medicine

April 27, 2015, 2:34 am

Over the last few months I have run across a couple of ideas — really catchy phrases — that are influencing the way I think about trends and hopefully progress (or lack of it) in medicine. The phrases...

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Identical Twins & Genetic Destiny

March 17, 2015, 2:38 am

There is a fascinating recent study from Finland on pairs of identical twins with very different exercise habits. This is unusual because widely divergent behavior patterns between identical twins are...

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Precision Medicine & Precision Weather: A False Analogy?

March 12, 2015, 2:57 am

One of the ideas riding the wave of enthusiasm for precision medicine is that with enough big data it should be possible to make increasingly accurate “forecasts” about who gets what disease and how it...

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Fitness & Mortality Update

March 4, 2015, 2:04 am

Two recent scientific papers make it time for a quick update on the topic of fitness and mortality. 1. Fitness vs. Cancer Mortality The first paper is meta-analysis that summarizes the results of a...

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Moonshots & Medicine

January 30, 2015, 2:38 am

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to land a featured op-ed in the New York Times about precision medicine in specific and the general topic of moonshots in medicine like the war on cancer. For those...

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‘Moonshot’ Medicine Will Let Us Down – NYTimes.com

January 29, 2015, 6:29 am

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