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Personalized Medicine in Contemporary World Tuesday, January 19, 20168 AM PST/4 PM BST/5 PM CESTST
Personalized medicine is an emerging practice of medicine that uses an individual's genetic profile to guide decisions made in regard to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease.
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Personalized health care is a broader platform that includes genetics and genomics but also includes any other biologic information (i.e biomarkers)
Credit: Cleveland Clinic
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. - Plato
• Medical History• Physical Activity• Genetic Profile• Nutrition• Friends & Family• Professional Experience• Hobbies
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