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The goal is to customize treatments for cancer and other diseases to a patient's own biology. But something as simple as failing to take care of tissue samples en route to the lab can derail that.
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During his State of the Union address last Tuesday, President Obama announced a new campaign to "cure cancer once and for all," with Vice President Joe…
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David A. Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D. was a renowned researcher and physician who transformed care for patients by personalizing treatments and making…
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David A. Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally renowned researcher and physician who transformed care for patients by personalizing treatments and…
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Interview with Ronald Bayer, Professor of Social Science at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public HealthPrecision medicine has a lot of important…
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If you wear eye glasses or contact lenses, chances are they’ve been specially calibrated to your unique set of eyes. If you’ve ever received a…
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Genetic profiling of cancer cells can help guide treatment, but such profiles can be ambiguous. Results would be more accurate if all labs tested normal cells from each patient, too.
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A drug that's effective in patients with certain forms of melanoma is being tested as a treatment for other cancers whose genetic code contains an identical mutation.
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President Obama recently asked Congress for $215 million for an initiative to collect genetic information and combine it with health data with the goal of…
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This week on the Sound Medicine podcast: scientists are working on ways to combine genetic mapping with patients' health data to develop treatments…