The Supreme Court decision could set free the dream of personalized medicine or shut it down.
An essential element to moving forward in the field of personalized medicine is cloud computing technology.
The result is one of the first examples of personalized medicine in colon cancer.
My hope is that future patients have the same chance to benefit from personalized medicine.
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September was a bad month for biotech, and shows us the promise and perils of personalized medicine.
Personalized medicine can also help profile someone's potential risk for contracting a disease like cancer or diabetes.
"This is the ultimate personalized medicine, " says Dr. Andrew Parsa, the neurosurgeon who is running the trial.
Scientists believe it could be used for disease prevention and possibly launch an era of personalized medicine.
As George Church, a geneticist at Harvard, explains, this is what is now happening in personalized medicine.
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One practical implementation of this genomic approach to personalized medicine has been successfully demonstrated by Genomic Health.
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Unfortunately, for personalized medicine, you need to conduct a LOT of individual tests.
To be sure, around the turn of the millennium, significant fanfare surrounded personalized medicine, especially in the field of genetics.
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The report counted 155 personalized medicine trials which target patients by using their unique genetic biomarkers started by January 2009.
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Millennium's work is a big step toward so-called personalized medicine, in which treatment would be tailored toward individual patients based on genetic makeup.
The promise of personalized medicine depends, finally, not on the tools that become available but on our determination to be informed and willing patients.
The end game in healthcare is personalized medicine facilitated by genomic research, which will someday allow us to create customized medications for individual patients.
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That, in turn, could hinder emerging efforts to match patients with drugs that target the mutations affecting their tumors, a basic strategy of personalized medicine.
In a step towards the long-awaited era of personalized medicine, Iceland's DeCode Genetics has discovered a new genetic risk factor for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
While not a big seller by itself, it represents the vanguard of a new personalized medicine approach from Pfizer cancer honcho Mace Rothenberg.
Topol said that none of what we talk about in personalized medicine is meant to supplant efforts to improve people's diets, lifestyles and physical activity.
More specifically, he talked about the growing importance of personalized medicine.
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Pharmaceutical companies looking to mine Big Data for insights into breakthrough opportunities in personalized medicine realize that time is their enemy and speed is their ally.
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At my initial diagnosis I participated in a clinical trial evaluating Herceptin, a so-called personalized medicine (PM) drug targeting a mutation believed to be driving my cancer.
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But in an interview after Aspen Ideas, Topol disputed that, saying that nowhere is the promise of personalized medicine as hopeful or exciting as in cancer research.
Emanuel spoke with Topol and Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on a panel about personalized medicine at the Aspen Ideas Festival this month.
This is particularly alarming because we are entering an era of personalized medicine where treatments and even medicines are being tailored to the individual genetic makeup of a patient.
Successful companies will marry their deep understanding of their medical science with their total commitment to health outcomes and individual consumer preferences to deliver on the promise of personalized medicine.
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"It could usher in an era of very personalized medicine where, based on the smart delivery system, one pill could take care of many different things for an individual, " he says.
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