Diagnostic breath tests in personalized medicine

Companion diagnostic tests in HIV medicine: the road to personalized medicine.

The terms "pharmacogenetics" and "pharmacogenomics" are often used interchangeably. Other terms include "theranostics" and, more recently, "onocogenomics." The European Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products, the European Union's equivalent of our FDA, defined pharmacogenetics as the "study of interindividual variations in DNA sequencing relating to drug response." Pharmacogenomics is def...

Perspectives of personalized medicine in traditional persian medicine

The approach of personalized medicine has received a great deal of attention over the last century, emphasizing attention to the patient rather than the disease. Personalized medicine tries to plan the patient's condition and treatment method by considering the culture, personal preferences and experiences and health beliefs of the person as well as the values and lifestyle of the person, and e...

The Importance of Functional Tests in Personalized Medicine

Cardiovascular disease is the most prevalent disease mainly in the Western society and becoming the leading cause of death worldwide. Standard methods by which healthcare providers screen for cardiovascular disease have only minimally reduced the burden of disease while exponentially increasing costs. As such, more specific and individualized methods for functionally assessing cardiovascular th...

Defining diagnostic tissue in the era of personalized medicine.

Personalized Medicine: Challenging Pharmaceutical and Diagnostic Company Business Models

The phrase "Personalized Medicine" has been alternately broadly and narrowly defined. Under its broadest definition, clinicians have been have been providing personalized medicine for as long as there has been medical practice physicians employ diagnostic tools, whether in vitro tests, imaging techniques, or symptomology to determine a particular condition, and then go on to prescribe the appro...