On July 10, 2015, the House of Representatives approved the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6) with a vote of 344-77. This act will launch healthcare into the 21st century by “investing in science and medical innovation, incorporating the patient perspective, and...
In the words of the National Institute of Health, precision medicine is an approach to disease treatment and prevention that accounts for individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle. In simpler terms, precision medicine means using a tailored treatment...
Geneticists have long had visions of a future in which medicine would be customized based on each individual’s genetic makeup. But the reality of tailoring treatment based on genetic testing has been a complex, expensive and ethically grey area, and...