Personalized Medicine

NorthShore Provides Clinical Genomic Testing to 10K Patients

by Jessica Kent

NorthShore University HealthSystem and Color have delivered actionable clinical genomic results to 10,000 patients through their DNA-10K program, which aims to integrate clinical genomics and routine...

Improved Brain Chip Could Advance Cancer Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at the University of Houston have improved a microfluidic brain chip that allows multiple-simultaneous drug administration and massive parallel testing of drug response for patients with...

Genomic Analyses Predict Therapy Response in Lung Cancer Patients

by Jessica Kent

An integrated genomic approach could help providers predict which patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer will respond to therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are...

Biomarker Predicts Heart Failure Patients at High Risk of Death

by Jessica Kent

Patients with heart failure who have higher levels of neuropeptide Y, a molecule released by the nervous system, are ten times more likely to die within one to three years than patients with lower...

Alzheimer’s Tau Protein Could Advance Cognitive Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

Brain imaging of tau-protein “tangles” accurately predicted the location of brain atrophy in patients with Alzheimer’s a year or more in advance, according to a study published in...

Evaluating the Benefits and Challenges of Genomics in Healthcare

by Jessica Kent

In recent years, genomics and genetic data have emerged as an innovative area of research that could potentially transform healthcare. This information could accelerate precision medicine, paving the...

What Are Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicine?

by Jennifer Bresnick

Since the beginning of recorded history, healthcare practitioners have striven to make their actions more effective for their patients by experimenting with different treatments, observing and sharing their results, and improving upon the...

How Do Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Differ in Healthcare?

by Jennifer Bresnick

If the futurists, visionaries, and venture capitalists are to be believed, artificial intelligence is right on the cusp of becoming the most important breakthrough for healthcare since penicillin.  Self-driving cars, scary-smart...