Personalised Medicine in Modern Era

Personalised Medicine

In recent years we have seen the emergence of “personalised medicine.” This development can be seen as the logical product of reductionism in medical science in which disease is increasingly understood in molecular terms. Personalised medicine has flourished as a consequence of the application of neoliberal principles to health care, whereby a commercial and social need for personalised medicin...

Macroenzyme creatine kinase in the era of modern laboratory medicine.

Among the conditions in which creatine kinase (CK)-MB activity is elevated in the absence of myocardial injury or infarction, macroenzyme (macro) CK merits special attention from clinicians. We present 2 cases, 1 with macro CK type 1 and the other with macro CK type 2, to stress the common clinical situations and diagnostic dilemma that clinicians encounter when evaluating patients with macro C...

Male fecundity prognosis and infertility diagnosis in the era of personalised medicine.

Correspondence to: Dr Li-Qing Fan, Institute of Reproductive and Stem Cell Engineering, Central South University, Reproductive and Genetic Hospital of CITIC-Xiangya, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China. Fax: + 86-731-8480-5302 E-mail: [email protected] Received: 20 April 2010 Revised: 20 May 2010 Accepted: 26 May 2010 Published online: 21 June 2010 Perspectives Asian Journal o...

Sunday 7 September, 0900–1030 Concurrent Session: Radiation in the Personalised Medicine Era

[The Paduan School of Medicine: medicine and philosophy in the modern era].

This is a partial contribution to an understanding of the history of the reception and transmission of classical Hippocratic and Galenic texts in Italy's modern period. By examining rotuli and puncti of the School of Medicine of Padua University, which record the subjects and content taught in the period between 1500 and 1600, one can study the official curriculum of this famous school. Perusal...