Tincture October 10, 2019
Precision (or personalized) medicine has now reached its ultimate endpoint. Researchers devised a medicine to treat a single patient — a girl with a unique genetic defect that caused her brain cells to accumulate waste and die. The one-off drug created for her seems to have halted disease progression.
It’s an amazing story. And now that we’ve reached this endpoint, perhaps it’s time to step back and take a look at what precision medicine promises and what it has delivered.
We’ve invested a lot of hope and a lot of money in the precision medicine paradigm. President Obama, at the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative 2015 said that it “…gives us one of the greatest opportunities for new medical...
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