Tag Archives: personalized-medicine

The End of One-Size-Fits-All Health Care

It has been known for decades that the vast majority of human biological differences aren’t between groups, they're from person to person. It’s weird that scientists and doctors still resort to sifting people into huge populations when trying to understand us: ethnicity, race, sex, and gender. 2024 will mark the …

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The Aftermath of a 'Miracle Cure' for a Rare Cancer

You really can't understand all the excitement surrounding personalized medicine without knowing a little bit about Gleevec. And once you know the full story of Gleevec, you really can’t help but see much of that excitement as wild and even dangerous exaggeration. Personalized medicine (sometimes it’s also called “precision medicine”) …

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