Institute For The Future

Using Genetics to Customize Cancer Treatments

Massachusetts General Hospital is planning to use genetic testing to personalize its treatment for all of its cancer patients within the year,...

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Sticking Price Tags on Body Parts

A couple recent, somewhat conflicting developments in the world of organ donations highlight some ongoing debates about how—and whether—to stick...

One of the things that can powerfully affect the future is the radical decline in price of a currently expensive good or service. The invention of the...

Physician Ponders ER of the Future

Emergency Physicians Monthly released an interesting paper today looking at how emergency rooms will need to remake care to accommodate the aging...

One evening a few months ago, I had a conversation with a local San Francisco business owner about Yelp, the online business directory that lets users...

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Fertility Treatments and Cosmetic Traits

On the heels of the public controversy over a mother of six using fertility treatments to have octuplets, comes a story from the...

GEMI Digital Story: Dilemma Management Around Sustainability

Linking business strategy and environmental sustainability is a dilemma companies face across the board. Just today, the Wall Street Journal profiles...

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MedPedia, which I wrote about last fall, has gone public. Part Wikipedia for health information, part LinkedIn for health professionals, it remains...

This piece was originally published on BBC.com in a series of four pieces on the World Social Forum, held last week in the Brazilian Amazon....

I just came across this Google spreadsheet of artists using Twitter. As with many major artist MySpace pages or blogs, the "big" ones are more likely...

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A special report recently released by iHealthBeat states that physicians are adopting smart phone technology faster than other U.S. consumers. ...

A wrinkle in the outsourcing trend: give laid-off workers the chance to relocate to new jobs in foreign countries, at local wages. From Information...

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