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Hot Topics of the Day are picked by experts to capture the latest information and publications on public health genomics and precision health for various diseases and health topics. Sources include published scientific literature, reviews, blogs and popular press articles.
Precision Health: Nature Medicine presents a special Focus dedicated to precision health.
(Posted: Aug 26, 2024 9AM)
What will it take to make precision health a global reality
(Posted: Jul 22, 2024 10AM)
A new agenda for implementing population genomic screening
(Posted: Jun 28, 2024 10AM)
Sustaining Community Engagement in Genomics Research: A Workshop
(Posted: May 30, 2024 0PM)
Proteome profiling of home-sampled dried blood spots reveals proteins of SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Claudia Fredolini et al. Commun Med (Lond) 2024 4 (1) 55
(Posted: Apr 04, 2024 9AM)
Emerging Opportunities for Genomics to Improve Population Health: Lessons learned from the National Academies Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health
CDC Webinar, May 22, 2024
(Posted: Mar 21, 2024 1PM)
We need to stand together on the shoulders of giants: consolidating effective approaches for translating genomics into practice with implementation science.
Stephanie Best et al. Public Health Genomics 2023 12
(Posted: Jan 22, 2024 8AM)
Engaging a national-scale cohort of smart thermometer users in participatory surveillance
YJ Tseng et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, September 20, 2023
(Posted: Sep 21, 2023 2PM)
Brining it all together: wearable data fusion
Y Celik et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, August 17, 2023
(Posted: Aug 17, 2023 11AM)
Genomics and Precision Public Health Issues Enrichment Event
Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education Enrichment Event, Atlanta, Georgia, September 7-8, 2023
(Posted: Jul 17, 2023 8AM)
Tracking the Contributions of Implementation Science to the Population Health Impact of Genomics and Precision Health: A New Knowledge Base
M Clyne et al, CDC blog post, June 16, 2023
(Posted: Jun 19, 2023 1PM)
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Public Health Genomics and Precision Health: Recent Findings, Methodologic Issues, and the Path Forward
CDC Public Health Genomics Webinar, October 26, 2023
(Posted: Jun 09, 2023 8AM)
NIH launches largest precision nutrition research effort of its kind
NIH ALL of Us, May 2023
(Posted: May 17, 2023 11AM)
Realizing the Potential of Genomics across the Continuum of Precision Health Care: Proceedings of a Workshop (2023)
NASEM, March 30, 2023
(Posted: Mar 30, 2023 10AM)
American Life in Realtime: a benchmark registry of health data for equitable precision health.
Ritika R Chaturvedi et al. Nature medicine 2023 2
(Posted: Feb 21, 2023 7AM)
Passive monitoring by smart toilets for precision health.
T Jessie Ge et al. Science translational medicine 2023 2 (681) eabk3489
(Posted: Feb 03, 2023 7AM)
Association of wearable device-measured vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity with mortality
E Stamatakis et al, Nature Medicine, December 8, 2022
(Posted: Dec 09, 2022 6AM)
Prospective evaluation of smartwatch-enabled detection of left ventricular dysfunction
ZI Attoa et al, Nature Medicine, November 14, 2022
(Posted: Nov 15, 2022 7AM)
Evaluation of physical health status beyond daily step count using a wearable activity sensor
Z Xu et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, November 9, 2022
(Posted: Nov 09, 2022 7AM)
Multimodal machine learning in precision health: A scoping review
A Kline et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, November 7, 2022
(Posted: Nov 08, 2022 7AM)
Unsettled Liability Issues for "Prediagnostic" Wearables and Health-Related Products.
Simon David A et al. JAMA 2022 9
(Posted: Sep 24, 2022 7AM)
Building Capacity for Implementation Science in Precision Health and Society: Development of a Course for Professional and Graduate Students in Pharmacy
MC Roberts, J Personalized Medicine, September 14, 2022
(Posted: Sep 14, 2022 3AM)
Wearable accelerometer-derived physical activity and incident disease.
Khurshid Shaan et al. NPJ digital medicine 2022 9 (1) 131
(Posted: Sep 04, 2022 8AM)
A wearable ultrasound patch.
O'Leary Karen et al. Nature medicine 2022 8
(Posted: Aug 13, 2022 6PM)
Bioadhesive ultrasound for long-term continuous imaging of diverse organs.
Wang Chonghe et al. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2022 7 (6605) 517-523
(Posted: Aug 01, 2022 11AM)
Precision Health Innovations in the Pandemic Era
D Rasooly et al, CDC Blog Post, July 8, 2022
(Posted: Jul 08, 2022 0PM)
Shaping the future of cardiovascular medicine in the new era of wearable devices.
Gehr Sinje et al. Nature reviews. Cardiology 2022 6
(Posted: Jun 11, 2022 9AM)
COVID-19 GPH: tracking the contribution of genomics and precision health to the COVID-19 pandemic response
W Yu et al, BMC Infectious Diseases, April 25, 2022
(Posted: Apr 25, 2022 8AM)
Tracking the Scientific Literature on the Impact of Pharmacogenomics on Clinical Practice and Public Health
S Abrishamcar et al, CDC blog Post, April 4 2022
(Posted: Apr 04, 2022 2PM)
Advancing Implementation Science in Precision Public Health: Ensuring Health Equity and Balancing Evolution and Sustainment
Precision Public Health Network webinar, April 27, 2022
(Posted: Mar 22, 2022 7AM)
Real life experience with the wearable cardioverter-defibrillator in an international multicenter Registry.
El-Battrawy Ibrahim et al. Scientific reports 2022 2 (1) 3203
(Posted: Feb 27, 2022 10AM)
Improving Diversity of the Genomics Workforce
NASEM RoundTable on Genomics and Precision Health, February 18, 2022
(Posted: Feb 18, 2022 0PM)
The Use of Machine Learning in Health Care: No Shortcuts on the Long Road to Evidence-based Precision Health
D Rasooly et al, CDC Blog Post, December 7, 2021
(Posted: Dec 07, 2021 1PM)
Digital twins for predictive oncology will be a paradigm shift for precision cancer care
TH Boussard et al, Nature Medicine, November 2, 2021
(Posted: Nov 27, 2021 9AM)
Transdisciplinary Conference for Future Leaders in Precision Public Health
Speakers Slide Presentations, November 2021
(Posted: Nov 12, 2021 7AM)
Assessment of the Feasibility of Using Noninvasive Wearable Biometric Monitoring Sensors to Detect Influenza and the Common Cold Before Symptom Onset
E Grzesiak et al, JAMA Network Open, September 29, 2021
(Posted: Sep 30, 2021 7AM)
Improving Diversity of the Genomics Workforce: A Workshop
NASEM Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health workshop, October 5, 2021
(Posted: Sep 20, 2021 3PM)
A systematic literature review of disclosure practices and reported outcomes for medically actionable genomic secondary findings.
Sapp Julie C et al. Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 2021 8
(Posted: Aug 27, 2021 7AM)
Personalized lab test models to quantify disease potentials in healthy individuals
NM Cohen et al, Nature Medicine, August 23, 2021
(Posted: Aug 25, 2021 8AM)
Tracking the Scientific Literature on SARS-CoV-2 Variants Using the COVID-19 Genomics and Precision Health Knowledge Base
M Feero et al, CDC blog post, July 27, 2021
(Posted: Jul 27, 2021 1PM)
Mobile health strategies for blood pressure self-management in urban populations with digital barriers: systematic review and meta-analyses
EC Khoong et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, July 22, 2021
(Posted: Jul 23, 2021 7AM)
Resources in Genomics and Precision Health to Enhance Public Health Impact of New Technologies
CDC slide set, 2021
(Posted: Jul 19, 2021 2PM)
‘It’s hard to know what’s trustworthy’: A new research effort aims to vet digital health data from wearables
K Palmer, Stat News, June 22, 2021
(Posted: Jun 23, 2021 8AM)
Continuous health monitoring: An opportunity for precision health.
Gambhir Sanjiv S et al. Science translational medicine 2021 6 (597)
(Posted: Jun 12, 2021 7AM)
Wearable sensors enable personalized predictions of clinical laboratory measurements
J Dunn et al, Nature Medicine, May 24, 2021
(Posted: May 25, 2021 7AM)
Mobile Health: making the leap to research and clinics
JP Ku et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, May 14, 2021
(Posted: May 15, 2021 7AM)
Wearables as a tool for measuring therapeutic adherence in behavioral health
L Wedlund et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, May 10, 2021
(Posted: May 11, 2021 8AM)
Precision Health Diagnostic and Surveillance Network uses S Gene Target Failure (SGTF) combined with sequencing technologies to identify emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.
RG Preston et al, MEDRXIV, May 7, 2021
(Posted: May 08, 2021 6AM)
Ensuring that biomedical AI benefits diverse populations
J Zhou et al, E Biomedicine, May 4, 2021
(Posted: May 04, 2021 3PM)
Stool-based Colorectal Cancer Screening in the COVID-19 Era
WD Dotson et al, CDC Blog, April, 12, 2021
(Posted: Apr 13, 2021 7AM)
Remote Patient Monitoring — Overdue or Overused?
K Mecklai et al, NEJM, April 10, 2021
(Posted: Apr 12, 2021 8AM)
CDC Resources in Genomics and Precision Health to Enhance Public Health Impact of New Technologies
CDC Webinar, March 25,2021
(Posted: Feb 27, 2021 7AM)
Development and Validation of Risk Scores for All-Cause Mortality for a Smartphone-Based "General Health Score" App: Prospective Cohort Study Using the UK Biobank.
Clift Ashley K et al. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2021 Feb 9(2) e25655
(Posted: Feb 19, 2021 10AM)
Precision Nutrition: Research Gaps and Opportunities Workshop
NIH Workshop, January 11-12, 2021
(Posted: Jan 05, 2021 8AM)
Public Health Genomics in Action: A State-based Approach to Genomics and Precision Health
CDC Webinar, January 28, 2021
(Posted: Dec 22, 2020 8AM)
How blockchain and genetic engineering could make food safer for people with allergies
G Poppy, Nature Outlook, December 2020
(Posted: Dec 20, 2020 11AM)
2021: research and medical trends in a post-pandemic world
M May, Nature Medicine, December 7, 2020
(Posted: Dec 10, 2020 11AM)
Assessing Lifting Risk Factors Using Wearable Motion Sensors
MS Barim et al, NIOSH Blog, October 2020
(Posted: Oct 26, 2020 9AM)
Precision Medicine Leaders Summit
PMLS, North Carolina Precision Health Initiative, October 20-21, 2020
(Posted: Oct 06, 2020 8AM)
Enabling precision rehabilitation interventions using wearable sensors and machine learning to track motor recovery
CA Dester et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, September 21, 2020
(Posted: Sep 22, 2020 10AM)
The Role of Digital Health Technologies in Drug Development: Proceedings of a Workshop
NASEM Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health Workshop, 2020
(Posted: Aug 28, 2020 10AM)
Wearable-device-measured physical activity and future health risk
T Strain et al, Nature Medicine, August 17, 2020
(Posted: Aug 18, 2020 7AM)
Rare Diseases and COVID-19
CDC COVID-19 Genomics and Precision Health Portal, August 2020
(Posted: Aug 08, 2020 10AM)
Precision Health Analytics With Predictive Analytics and Implementation Research- JACC State-of-the-Art Review
TA Pearson et al, JACC, July 2020
(Posted: Jul 15, 2020 0PM)
From Precision Medicine to Precision Public Health: Beyond the Pandemic
MJ Khoury et al, CDC Blog Post, June 18, 2020
(Posted: Jun 21, 2020 3PM)
The Project Baseline Health Study: a step towards a broader mission to map human health
K Arges et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, June 5, 2020
(Posted: Jun 06, 2020 6AM)
Using Digital Technologies in Precision Public Health: COVID-19 and Beyond
MJ Khoury et al, CDC Blog, April 2020
(Posted: Apr 26, 2020 8AM)
A New Resource for Genomics and Precision Health Information and Publications on the Investigation and Control of COVID-19 and other Coronaviruses
W Yu et al, BIORXIV, April 21, 2020
(Posted: Apr 22, 2020 8AM)
The Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database reports enable evidence-based personal precision health care.
Møller Pål et al. Hereditary cancer in clinical practice 2020 186
(Posted: Mar 25, 2020 9AM)
The future of sleep health: a data-driven revolution in sleep science and medicine
NPJ Digital Medicine, March 23, 2020
(Posted: Mar 24, 2020 6AM)
Use of artificial intelligence in infectious diseases
S Aghrebi et al, AI in Precision Health, March 2020
(Posted: Mar 16, 2020 8AM)
Skin-interfaced biosensors for advanced wireless physiological monitoring in neonatal and pediatric intensive-care units
HU Chung et al, Nature Medicine, March 11, 2020
(Posted: Mar 12, 2020 10AM)
NHGRI establishes new intramural precision health research program
NIH, February 2020
(Posted: Feb 17, 2020 10AM)
Smartphones vs Wearable Devices for Remotely Monitoring Physical Activity After Hospital Discharge
MS Patel et al, JAMA Network Open, February 2020
(Posted: Feb 10, 2020 9AM)
Inter- and intraindividual variability in daily resting heart rate and its associations with age, sex, sleep, BMI, and time of year: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of 92,457 adults.
Quer Giorgio et al. PloS one 2020 (2) e0227709
(Posted: Feb 06, 2020 9AM)
Introducing "Precision Health Promotion": The Convergence of Genomics, Health Education, and Lived Experience.
Terry Paul E et al. American journal of health promotion : AJHP 2020 Jan 890117120903129
(Posted: Feb 05, 2020 9AM)
Coronavirus Genomics and Precision Health Knowledge Base
PHGKB information and publications on coronavirus, genomics and precision health
(Posted: Jan 31, 2020 9AM)
Deep phenotyping during pregnancy for predictive and preventive medicine
AG Paquette et al, Scit Trans Medicine, Januar 22, 2020
(Posted: Jan 24, 2020 8AM)
An unsupervised learning approach to identify novel signatures of health and disease from multimodal data.
Shomorony Ilan et al. Genome medicine 2020 Jan (1) 7
(Posted: Jan 17, 2020 8AM)
Innovation should support societal responsibility for health
R Milne et al, BMJ Blog, January 2020
(Posted: Jan 07, 2020 8AM)
Communication and Information Sharing about Genomics and Precision Health: Opportunities for Improvement
C Allen et al, CDC Blog, January 2, 2020
(Posted: Jan 04, 2020 2PM)
Ethical and Legal Considerations for the Inclusion of Underserved and Underrepresented Immigrant Populations in Precision Health and Genomic Research in the United States.
Wagner Jennifer K et al. Ethnicity & disease 2019 29(Suppl 3) 641-650
(Posted: Jan 02, 2020 10AM)
Digital assessment of falls risk, frailty, and mobility impairment using wearable sensors
BR Greene, NPJ Digital Medicine, December 2019
(Posted: Dec 12, 2019 9AM)
Mass-producing wearable sensors: No sweat
LH Han, Sci Trans Med, December 11, 2019
(Posted: Dec 12, 2019 8AM)
Epidemiologic Research in Dry Eye Disease and the Utility of Mobile Health Technology
MTM Wang et al, JAMA Ophthalmology, November 28 2019
(Posted: Nov 29, 2019 9AM)
Diagnosing With a Camera From a Distance—Proceed Cautiously and Responsibly
MP Turakhia, JAMA Cardiology, November 2019
(Posted: Nov 28, 2019 9AM)
Wearable graphene sensors use ambient light to monitor health
Nature News, November 18, 2019
(Posted: Nov 19, 2019 8AM)
Integrated textile sensor patch for real-time and multiplex sweat analysis
W He et al, Science Advances, November 8, 2019
(Posted: Nov 11, 2019 6AM)
Digital endpoints library can aid clinical trials for new medicines
J Goldsack et al, Stat News, November 6, 2019
(Posted: Nov 09, 2019 8AM)
Wearable technology and lifestyle management: the fight against obesity and diabetes
The Lancet Digital Health, Vol 1, Iss 6, Pe 243, October 1, 2019
(Posted: Oct 11, 2019 0PM)
A Theoretical Framework for Clinical Implementation of Social Determinants of Health.
Hammond Gmerice et al. JAMA cardiology 2019 Oct
(Posted: Oct 11, 2019 8AM)
Introducing the CDC Office of Genomics and Precision Public Health: What’s in a Name?
M Khoury, CDC Blog, September 30, 2019
(Posted: Oct 01, 2019 8AM)
Exploring the Current Landscape of Consumer Genomics - A Workshop
NASEM workshop, October 29, 2019
(Posted: Sep 30, 2019 9AM)
Digital health: From clinical trials to diagnosis and surgery, artificial intelligence has the potential to transform medicine.
R Hodson, Nature Outlook, September 25, 2019
(Posted: Sep 27, 2019 10AM)
Towards a tricorder for diagnosing paediatric conditions
J Chan et al, The Lancet, September 12, 2019
(Posted: Sep 13, 2019 9AM)
Enabling Web-scale data integration in biomedicine through Linked Open Data
MR Kamdar et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, September 10, 2019
(Posted: Sep 11, 2019 9AM)
Toward clinical digital phenotyping: a timely opportunity to consider purpose, quality, and safety
K Huckvale, NPJ Digital Medicine, Septetmber 2019
(Posted: Sep 08, 2019 6AM)
Mobile Devices and Health.
Sim Ida et al. The New England journal of medicine 2019 Sep (10) 956-968
(Posted: Sep 05, 2019 8AM)
A protocol integrating remote patient monitoring patient reported outcomes and cardiovascular biomarkers
C Shufelt et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, September 3, 2019
(Posted: Sep 03, 2019 10AM)
Developing a digital intervention for cancer survivors: an evidence-, theory- and person-based approach
K Brabdbury et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, September 2, 2019
(Posted: Sep 02, 2019 2PM)
Disclaimer: Articles listed in Hot Topics of the Day are selected by Public Health Genomics Branch to provide current awareness of the scientific literature and news. Inclusion in the update does not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nor does it imply endorsement of the article's methods or findings. CDC and DHHS assume no responsibility for the factual accuracy of the items presented. The selection, omission, or content of items does not imply any endorsement or other position taken by CDC or DHHS. Opinion, findings and conclusions expressed by the original authors of items included in the Clips, or persons quoted therein, are strictly their own and are in no way meant to represent the opinion or views of CDC or DHHS. References to publications, news sources, and non-CDC Websites are provided solely for informational purposes and do not imply endorsement by CDC or DHHS.
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