The Quest for Precision Medicine

Fluorescence-guided surgery: the quest for precision

The ever-mounting pressure on surgeons to improve efficacy, safety and financial outcomes of their work, has driven them, and the industry, to seek ways for enhancing operative precision. We certainly need to delineate, beyond doubt, lesions that are supposed to be completely removed, as well as structures that ought to be preserved. One way to achieve this goal is to augment visualization at s...

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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,...

Integrative medicine and the quest for humanism in medicine.

The recent issues of this journal have repeatedly presented considerations on the use and appropriateness of the term ‘integrative medicine’ (IM) and its relatives such as ‘complementary medicine’ (CM), ‘complementary and alternative medicine’ (CAM), ‘integrative and complementary medicine’ (CIM). The editorial board has encouraged a broad discussion on the topic; symptomatically, the editors t...

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 ...