The premise of individualized or personalized medicine is that the intervention is tailored to the individual. Individualized therapy will accommodate differences in body size, differences in metabolism and elimination, as well as differences in response. One appropriate starting point for individualized therapy is to focus on sex differences. Men and women differ in critical molecular, genetic...

Objectives: The objectives of the study were to evaluate effects homoeopathic treatment on patient distress, sociodemographic factors and outcomes in patients with gout. Materials Methods: This was an observational conducted using secondary data from hospital records, pathological reports, prescription sheet computerised records Mahesh Bhattacharyya Homoeopathic Medical College Hospital. Result...

OBJECTIVE Goal attainment scaling represents a unique approach to identifying and quantifying individualized, meaningful treatment outcomes, and its use in the rehabilitation medicine setting is increasing. The aim of this paper is to discuss the available literature for goal attainment scaling in patients with acquired brain injury, in terms of its advantages, disadvantages and practical appli...

This article describes the challenges that integration of Chinese medicine (CM) and biomedicine are likely to bring for improving safety, research, education, and cross-disciplinary communication. Potential strategies to meet these challenges are suggested, including the use of accessible language for the Western biomedical community, and further development of whole-system randomized controlle...

Despite the need for more effective treatments for psychiatric disorders, development of new medications has stalled. Here we discuss the promise of personalized medicine in developing more efficacious and individualized pharmacotherapies that take into account genetic variation and target groups of patients who share biology, not just symptoms.

Ingle and colleagues present timely findings identifying genetic variants associated with response to selective estrogen receptor modulator therapy that when substantiated in follow-up may represent an important step toward understanding estrogen-dependent induction of BRCA1 expression and advancing individualized preventive medicine in women at high risk for developing breast cancer.

Despite recent advances in perinatal medicine and in the art of neonatal resuscitation, resuscitation strategy and treatment methods in the delivery room should be individualized depending on the unique characteristics of the neonate. The constantly increasing evidence has resulted in significant treatment controversies, which need to be resolved with further clinical and experimental research.

Jing Du and Yong Han Department of Gastroenterology, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; Clinical Research Institute, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; People’s Hospital of Hangzhou Medical College, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; and Key Laboratory of Tumor Molecular Diagnosis and Individualized Medicine ...