When Francis Collins, then-director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, testified before Congress in 2003 about the significance of sequencing the human genome that year, he introduced ...

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 ...

Imagine walking into your doctor’s office and being greeted not by people who invite you to wait, but by a scanner ready to gather information about your heart, kidney, lung and liver function.

Personalized medicine has begun to move from the realm of science fiction to reality over the past decade as investigators continue to identify genetic variants that predict disease and response to ...

Many biomedical researchers and physicians hail personalized medicine as a radical, new approach to healthcare. In contrast to the traditional, one-size-fits-all model that treats all patients as if ...

The promise of personalized medicine — safer and more effective treatments tailored to each individual’s body and needs — isn’t being fully met because of challenges associated with its implementation ...

A baby named KJ was born in Philadelphia with an ultra-rare metabolic disorder that, under normal circumstances, would have required an organ transplant or been fatal. Instead, doctors sequenced KJ’s ...

During the past two decades or so, personalized medicine has gotten a lot of hype. The promise is this: researchers can use a person’s genetic data to help guide disease treatment and, in some cases, ...

One of the more famous precepts of Dr. William Osler (1849-1918), widely regarded as the Father of Modern Medicine and the “greatest diagnostician ever to wield a stethoscope,” was to, “treat the ...

Personalized medicine leverages an individual’s genetic profile to guide disease treatment, enabling physicians to choose targeted therapies more likely to be effective for each patient—rather than ...

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