The Personalized Medicine Revolution
eBook - ePub

The Personalized Medicine Revolution

How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Personalized Medicine Revolution

How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

About this book

Every one of us is unique. With recent advances in technology, we now know that that statement is more true that ever: we are each individuals, right down to a molecular level — a one-of-a-kind combination of genes, proteins, and metabolism. So why does healthcare still take a one-size-fits-all approach? The same methods are used on everyone to diagnose illness, and the same drugs are used to treat it — despite the fact that those methods and treatments are not effective for everyone and are even harmful for some. Shouldn’t our medicine be tailored to our differences? The Personalized Medicine Revolution explores recent advances in genomics, the study of the human genome — as well as its cousins proteomics, metabolomics, microbiomics, and the like — and explains how technology is even now changing the way medicine is delivered. Along the way, it takes the reader through the five critical healthcare areas that will be transformed most radically by personalized medicine — prediction, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring — and examines the practical and ethical issues involved. Finally, it details how readers can use personalized medicine to take charge of their own health and build a stronger and safer medical system.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. 1 - Why Personalized Medicine?
  5. 2 - From Magical Thinking to Personalized Medicine
  6. 3 - The Molecular You
  7. 4 - The Digital You
  8. 5 - Signs of the Revolution
  9. 6 - Personalized Medicine in the Next Ten Years
  10. 7 - The Genie Is out of the Bottle
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Sources
  13. Index