Defining evidence for precision medicine

precision medicine for endocrinology

Precision Chemistry for Precision Medicine

During the 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama unveiled plans for a $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative. The details of this plan were laid out by past and present directors of the National Institutes of Health, Harold Varmus and Francis Collins, in a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine. While the announcement stood as a public statement of support for funding,...

Precision medicine, technologies, and molecular diagnostics

Introduction: Genetics, cellular and molecular medicines are cutting-edge sciences and technologies that play an important role in improving human health and quality of life. In addition, medical and biological sciences have clearly shown that the onset of diseases differs from person to person due to their different genetic profiles and variations in molecular basis. Therefore, it is feasible ...

Defining Precision Medicine and the New Concepts of P-to-p Medicine

There is the need for further defining the term precision medicine due to lack of its authoritative or official definition. After head-to-head comparison of all existing terms and their definitions, the term precision medicine is more frequently used in basic and clinical medicine, because it may best reflect the whole profile of all relevant terms, with something new or different from others. ...

NLP for Precision Medicine

We will introduce precision medicine and showcase the vast opportunities for NLP in this burgeoning field with great societal impact. We will review pressing NLP problems, state-of-the art methods, and important applications, as well as datasets, medical resources, and practical issues. The tutorial will provide an accessible overview of biomedicine, and does not presume knowledge in biology or...