precision medicine

Precision medicine, the concept of giving the right treatment to the right patient at the right time, is flourishing in ...

For all the life-saving pharmaceuticals, surgeries and devices it provides, modern medicine is still rather imprecise. Chemotherapy drugs, for instance, ...

The nearly 200,000 Americans who have trusted federal scientists with their DNA, their medical records, and detailed behavioral surveys will ...

[Anthropologist and bioethicist Sandra Soo-Jin Lee] recently wrote about ethics in personalized medicine research for Science magazine, and we spoke ...

A lack of racial and ethnic diversity in pharmacogenomic research is raising questions about whether poorly represented groups are being ...

I believe we should be more aggressively pursuing precision health: ways to prevent disease and, when that isn’t possible, intercept and ...

Although some niche applications have been found for precision medicine, and gene therapy is now becoming a reality for a ...

Scientists are tapping individuals’ genetic profiles to learn which patients will respond to antipsychotic medication for schizophrenia. The pursuit is ...

When pet dogs are diagnosed with cancer, they typically get surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation — that is, of course, if ...

Approximately 900 million women around the world use contraceptives. It’s a shame that, even with the best available evidence and resources, an ...

In the 15 years since the Human Genome Project first exposed our DNA blueprint, vast amounts of genetic data have ...

For several decades in modern medicine history, human race has been used as a constant variable to predict and/or determine ...

Oncology currently leads the way in precision medicine advancements, but its forward progress is slowed by inefficiencies such as clinical ...

Doctors and hospitals love to talk about the patients they’ve saved with precision medicine, and reporters love to write about ...

For decades the potential of stem cells to cure all disease was promised. Today’s reality is that the few worthy ...

Lee Tan, a 41-year-old marketing professional and copywriter in Vancouver, Canada, was diagnosed with high blood pressure three years ago ...

So much of the public's attention is focused on the use of genetic engineering in the crops that our farmers ...

Its power for discovering rare diseases is well proven. But genetics’ impact on public and preventative health has a long ...

Personal genetic tests and precision medicine are becoming increasingly popular tools but caution is appropriate. The technology is still evolving ...

For many treatments it remains to be proven whether a drug's epigenetic actions, rather than another mechanism such as stimulation ...

FDA head says Precision Medicine Initiative should sequence one in every four Americans. Where will that money come from? And ...

Scientists have genetically engineered algae, transforming them into targeted drug delivery systems to target cancer. It's worked in the lab ...

Precision medicine is leading to cures but at high cost to healthcare systems. But there are emerging examples of lower-tech ...

Biomarker testing is the shiny new thing. Some scientists claim they can predict complex mental disorders. It would be nice ...

Precision medicine struggles to fulfill its promise as a next generation solution to disease prevention ...

Precision and personalized medicine have at their heart the promise of targeting diseases with specialized therapies specific to certain types ...

More than a decade ago, we sequenced the human genome with hope that disease cures might soon follow. Finding treatment ...