Alcohol is responsible for more deaths than overdoses from opioids and all other substances combined, yet less than 10% of people with alcohol use disorder receive treatment.
Identifying the most effective cancer treatment for a given patient from the get-go can help improve outcomes.
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Functional precision medicine works to take the guesswork out of deciding which drug to try next for patients with cancers that don’t respond to standard treatments.
Genetic testing can help take the guesswork out of finding the right treatment. For certain diseases. To an extent.
Learning how to treat endocrine disorders in horses may also lead to treatments in people, and vice versa.
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Horses and humans share biological similarities that lead them to suffer from similar endocrine and orthopedic diseases. A number of treatments that work for one species often work for the other.
Most clinical trials overrepresent young white males.
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Medicine works better when the treatments are tailored to fit each individual person’s biology and history. A first step is increasing diversity in clinical trials, but the end goal is precision medicine.
Handheld devices like this one, used for testing blood sugar levels, could help TB patients monitor their own drug levels.
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There are several reasons that TB patients don’t or can’t adhere to their treatment.
Depending on how you look at it, drugs that can act on multiple targets could be a boon instead of a challenge.
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Many approved drugs work on the body in ways that researchers still aren’t entirely clear about. Seeing this as an opportunity instead of a flaw may lead to better treatments for complex conditions.
Skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema can have rashes that are difficult to distinguish by eye.
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Many doctors currently diagnose skin conditions by eye. Advances in molecular testing could lead to more precise and accurate diagnoses for ambiguous rashes and skin lesions.
Medical education needs to include understanding how genetic conditions can occur.
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Precision medicine is often touted as the future of medicine. But so far, it hasn’t been helpful in the war against COVID-19. Here is how it could be used to tease apart the nuances of the disease.
Clinical trials are used to establish that medicines work. But these don’t take into account the genetic differences between us that can mean very different outcomes for different patients.
Decoding all the DNA in a patient’s biological sample can reveal whether an infectious microbe is causing the disease.
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Charles Chiu, University of California, San Francisco
Superfast DNA analysis is now being used to crack medical mysteries when physicians can’t figure out whether an infectious microbe is causing the disease.
Rapidly advancing technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D-printing, smart-phones, smart-homes, precision medicine and diagnostics, promise to disrupt health care as we know it.
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In an era of rapid technological advance, devastating climate change, increasing inequality and a steadily aging society, health-care leadership development is vital.
Research published in Science Translational Medicine in February 2019 used a virtual patient to test the drug, Fevipiprant.
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Asthma affects around 339 million people worldwide. A new drug promises to lower risks of asthma attack and may eventually allow patients to reduce their dependence on steroids.
Identification of genetic mutations has led to the development of effective drugs.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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