[ExI] good bexarotene article

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 10:22:50 UTC 2012


On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/2/11 spike <spike66 at att.net>
>>There should be a database somewhere, where people can dump medical information, while stripping out identities, so that we can find this kind of signal in the noise.  I am surprised something like that doesn’t exist somewhere.  We could maintain patient privacy while still perhaps filtering out these oddball correlations...
>
> Yes, this would be a very good idea. Not that I understand why privacy
> should really be a primary concern for terminal cancer patients...

It isn't. But it is a primary concern for doctors and hospitals due to
the ridiculous HIPPA laws here. I have heard that there are some
databases with info stripped out, but I forget the details of who has
it and why.

-Kelly




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