Precision Medicine

Precision medicine via genetic testing and family history can reduce uncertainty in diabetes diagnoses and allow more targeted therapy, improving patient-centered outcomes, such as mental health and quality of life, according to a speaker.

Precision medicine will soon become a key component of diabetes management, and diabetes care and education specialists will be at the forefront of providing personalized care, according to a speaker.

Researchers are using the NIH’s All of Us Research Program to advance efforts to individualize health care in the United States.

As precision medicine continues to play an increasingly important role in cancer care, racial and ethnic disparities in access to this innovative treatment approach have emerged.

The American Heart Association announced the conjoining of its Precision Medicine Platform and the digital data management infrastructure of Hitachi Vantara to improve the platform’s accessibility for health care research.

Phenotype-guided obesity interventions, determined by a blood test, can double weight loss for patients compared with standard obesity care, according to a presenter at the Obesity Medicine Association 2021 virtual conference.

In this episode, Eamonn Quigley, MD, joins us to discuss his journey into gastroenterology, probiotics and pearls of wisdom to the next generation of physician investigators.

Each year in the U.S., more than 20,000 patients are diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia — an aggressive and often lethal malignancy — and more than half this number of patients die.

If there was any question about whether rheumatologists would utilize an effective biomarker that can predict response to a commonly used class of drugs, it was answered by a recent study in Rheumatology International.

Artificial intelligence can be leveraged to tailor a diet to a person’s specific physiology, and continuous glucose monitors could “train” such algorithms to recognize patterns after specific foods are consumed, according to a speaker.