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 ...

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 ...

For every 1,000 patients in the study cohort, 497 (49.7%) are lost to precision oncology because of factors associated with getting biomarker test results. Among the 503 of 1,000 patients who did ...

Report from Michael Rugnetta and Whitney Kramer offers ways to integrate personalized medicine into our health care system. This report was originally published in Science Progress. There are ...

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 ...

Enable more effective and targeted treatments that address unique needs for patients with pharmacogenomics. The traditional one-size-fits-all approach to medication has long been recognized as a ...

As a nation, we have engaged in many debates and much discourse on how to improve America’s health care system. There has been an understandable focus on the well-trod issues, such as health costs, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A lipid profiling blood test may predict the risk for type 2 diabetes and CVD years in advance, according to ...

Concierge medicine offers personalized healthcare with benefits like more time with your doctor and 24/7 access. But it comes at a cost. Concierge medicine is a healthcare model that gives you more ...

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 ...

Study participants who went on an IgG-based elimination diet--based on a novel blood test--experienced less abdominal pain than those on a sham diet. Michigan Medicine and Cleveland Clinic researchers ...