Getting Personal: Omics Of The Heart

Jane Ferguson:                Hi everybody. Welcome to Episode 25. I'm Jane Ferguson. This is Getting Personal: Omics of the Heart, the podcast from Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, and it is February 2019. Let's get started.                                            The first paper this issue is a concurrent publication and comes to us from 29 different editors-in-chief of 27 major cardiovascular journals, led by Joseph Hill, editor-in-chief of Circulation. This editorial, entitled Medical Misinformation: Vet the Message! gives a pointed reminder of the real life risks of misinformation that spreads rapidly through social media and influences people who are making crucial decisions about healthcare for themselves and their families. Quoting directly from the paper they say, "We, the editors-in-chief of the major cardiovascular scientific journals around the globe, sound the alarm that human lives are at stake. People who decline to use a statin when recommended by their doctor, or parents who w