MedCity News June 11, 2021
New technologies that enable precision medicine approaches to treating disease are reaching more patients. But panelists speaking at MedCity News’ INVEST Precision Medicine Conference added that advances in technology are happening faster than the ability of hospitals and health systems to keep pace.
In medical training, Nephi Walton recalled being taught to prepare to give grim news to parents of those born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA): The rare disease has no treatment, and the child will pass away. But the mid-1990s discovery of the genetic aberration at the root of SMA paved the way for the research leading to two new drugs and one gene therapy two decades later.
Walton, associate medical director of precision genomics at Intermountain Healthcare,...
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