The term ‘personalized medicine’ is being used more and more frequently. But what does it mean? This explainer outlines what personalized medicine is, its advantages and some concerns that ...

Early proponents of personalized medicine saw that technological breakthroughs had unlocked unprecedented opportunities to study the activities of genes, proteins, and mRNA, among other molecules.

This shift is already starting in the clinical research setting, where AI-powered digital biomarkers are delivering key insights into patients’ health to inform personalized patient support and ...

Dr. Tabery is a professor of philosophy at the University of Utah and the author of the forthcoming book “Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health,” from ...

One irony of personalized or precision medicine (PM) is that it aims, against the advice of Hippocrates and Osler, to treat the disease, not the patient. By Bryan Oronsky on May 09, 2024 12:15 pm ...

How personalized medicine is transforming your health care. Stunning advances in gene research and data mining will predict diseases and devise treatments tailored to each of us.

According to the Personalized Medicine Coalition’s latest estimates, more than 75,000 genetic testing products and 300 personalized medicines are on the market for people with multiple types of ...

Personalized medicine -- also called precision medicine or pharmacogenetics -- is a new way to fight cancer. It uses information about you and your tumor to figure out what’s driving the ...

Personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, is an approach to healthcare that tailors medical treatments to the individual characteristics, needs, and preferences of each patient. It ...

In 2001, Gleevec was approved as a treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia. It was a revelation for personalized medicine—with harrowing financial repercussions that persist today.

When the human genome was fully sequenced in 2003, the prospects of genetic medicine ushered in a new era of human health. Today, scientists and drug developers have a better understanding of the ...