Personalized medicine in the age of Big Data
Intuitively, medical treatment that is tailored to our individual physical needs makes sense. For example, the best treatment for me for a particular condition may not be the best for you.
This is the goal of personalized medicine. The scope of personalized medicine can be fuzzy, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states:
(Continue reading…)Precision medicine, sometimes called personalized medicine, is an approach for protecting health and treating disease that takes into account a person’s genes, behaviors, and environment. Interventions are tailored to individuals or groups, rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach in which everyone receives the same care.
