Making Qualitative Intestinal Stricture Quantitative: Embracing Radiomics in IBD

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 743-745
Author(s):  
Sinan Lin ◽  
Xiaoqin Lin ◽  
Xuehua Li ◽  
Minhu Chen ◽  
Ren Mao
Keyword(s):  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Intestinal Fibrosis ◽  
Challenging Issue ◽  
Intestinal Stricture

Quantifying intestinal fibrosis is an important but challenging issue in stricturing CD. With the advent of radiomics, MRE and CTE are highly minable data rather than merely pictures, which will greatly facilitate precision medicine in intestinal fibrosis of CD.

Prophets and Profits of Racial Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruha Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Racial Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial Ethnic

In this response to Terence Keel and John Hartigan’s debate over the social construction of race, I aim to push the discussion beyond the terrain of epistemology and ideology to examine the contested value of racial science in a broader political economy. I build upon Keel’s concern that even science motivated by progressive aims may reproduce racist thinking and Hartigan’s proposition that a critique of racial science cannot rest on the beliefs and intentions of scientists. In examining the value of racial-ethnic classifications in pharmacogenomics and precision medicine, I propose that analysts should attend to the relationship between prophets of racial science (those who produce forecasts about inherent group differences) and profits of racial science (the material-semiotic benefits of such forecasts). Throughout, I draw upon the idiom of speculation—as a narrative, predictive, and financial practice—to explain how the fiction of race is made factual, again and again. 

Expanding the Role of N-of-1 Trials in the Precision Medicine Era: Action Priorities and Practical Considerations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina W. Davidson ◽  
Ying Kuen Cheung ◽  
Thomas McGinn ◽  
Y. Claire Wang
Keyword(s):  
Precision Medicine
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