Showing posts with label Medical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medical. Show all posts

Thursday 19 July 2007

Genetics

Short:
Diagnostic techniques to detect a single gene or gene expression will be hot, think Diabetes or Asthma.
Better knowledge of genetic will allow tailored drug treatment, which will increase effectiveness and reduce side effects.

Long:
Most people in the developed world will have their genome sequenced.
Medical insurers or HMO's will get their hands on the results.

Tuesday 19 June 2007

Medical

Short Range Trends:
Increasing self diagnosis using the internet.
Medical tourism.
commodity cosmetic procedures.
Antibiotics will fail.
Hospitals will spend more on being cleaner.


Long Range Trends:

MRI scanners in every doctors office.
Long distance diagnosis by doctors in Delhi.
Genome mapping for under $1000.
Personalized medicine using our mapped genomes