One of healthcare’s biggest challenges has always been its lack of precision. If a patient were to ask if a prescribed treatment will be effective, the doctor can only respond with generalities: “Well ...

We’ve been talking about this for years now. Personalized medicine. Or precision medicine, if you prefer that term. The idea is simple enough on paper-stop treating patients like averages and start ...

When people have fallen ill throughout history, medical practitioners have tended to treat them with one-size-fits-all medications—a single medicine for everyone with Illness A, and another for all ...

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 ...

Under the agreement, Closed Loop Medicine – a leading TechBio company – and pharmaceutical company, Teva UK, will investigate opportunities to use Closed Loop Medicine’s proprietary software as a ...

Developing advanced drug screening tools is crucial for the advancement of personalized medicine and the creation of more effective treatments. One organ receiving particular attention in this area is ...

The landscape of drug development is rapidly evolving, with a pressing need for innovative strategies that account for the intricacies of individual patient responses. Pharmacokinetics, the study of ...

Rafael Kramann, MD, PhD, FASN, FERA, embraced the field of nephrology early in his career for the opportunity to take on ...

Commensurate with technological improvements and the subsequent rise in genetic research and genetics-based tests and treatments, the term ‘personalized medicine’ is being used more frequently. But ...

It is a standard joke that when philosophers are asked to give a perspective on a topic, they first of all ask what it means and make no further progress. When it comes to personalized medicine, ...