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Healthcare IT News reported on December 08, 2009 | Bernie Monegain, Editor

“The Science of Personalized Medicine: Translating the Promise into Practice” notes that personalized medicine, which targets individualized treatment and care based on personal and genetic variation, is creating a booming market, but is a disruptive innovation that will create both opportunities and challenges for traditional healthcare and emerging market participants”.

“Thursday, December 3, 2009 is one of the drugs used on the sickest patients, and it is not effective against the H1N1 virus in only a few cases. But epidemiologists said experience with other flu strains shows that resistance can spread quickly, making monitoring and prevention crucial”. Click Here for entire article

Why is the artificial deadline of “before the end of the year” being imposed on a law that goes into effect 2014?  For better or worse this law will change health care in America forever.

The House vote on H.R. 3962, was 220-215 (Democrats 219 in favour, 39 against; Republicans 176 against, one for).

Later today the WHO (The World Health Organization) will release a 10 year study regarding cell phones and cancer.

The AP reported yesterday that President Obama has declared H1N1 a National emergency.  ”The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October”.

New York State backed off their mandate yesterday (requiring all New York Healthcare workers to receive H1N1  vaccine or lose their JOB) under the cover of a vaccine shortage.