Precision Medicine for Managing Diabetes

Precision medicine for managing chronic diseases.

Precision medicine (PM) is an important modern paradigm for combining new types of metrics with big medical datasets to create prediction models for prevention, diagnosis, and specific therapy of chronic diseases. The aim of this paper was to differentiate PM from personalized medicine, to show potential benefits of PM for managing chronic diseases, and to define problems with implementation of...

Effective Strategies for Managing Asthma Exacerbations for Precision Medicine

precision medicine for endocrinology

Genetics and neonatal diabetes: towards precision medicine

934 www.thelancet.com Vol 386 September 5, 2015 Diabetes is a lifelong chronic disease. During the past 100 years, its diagnosis has been based on measurements of raised blood glucose concentrations. In the 1960s, diabetes was subclassifi ed based on age at onset and need for insulin treatment (ie, juvenile or maturity onset; insulin or non-insulinrequiring diabetes). Because diabetes was belie...

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,...