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The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine

by Francis S. Collins(c) 2010  My employer (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) is the world’s leader in implementing the ideas around personalized medicine, so I picked up this audiobook to educate me on what’s going on around me while I drove to and from work. In it, I found interesting stories from patients combined with weighty data from the human genome. Collins maintains a warm bedside manner as well as a writer as he does as…

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Essential Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Approach by Harvey MotulskyFundamentals of Biostatistics by Bernard RosnerR for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham and Garrett GrolemundThe Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design by Norman MatloffFramingham Heart StudyA History of Public Health by George Rosen and Elizabeth FeePublic Health: A Very Short Introduction by Virginia BerridgeThe History of Global Health: Intervention into the Lives of Other Peoples by Randall M. Packard

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