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We introduce the Theory and Methods Special Issue on Precision Medicine Individualized Policy Discovery. The issue consists of four discussion papers, grouped into two pairs, sixteen regular research papers that cover many important lines data-driven decision making. hope provocative original ideas presented herein will inspire further work development in precision medicine personalization.

Individualized medicine enables better diagnoses and treatment decisions for patients and promotes research in understanding the molecular underpinnings of disease. Linking individual patient's genomic and molecular information with their clinical phenotypes is crucial to these efforts. To address this need, the Center for Individualized Medicine at Mayo Clinic has implemented a genomic data wa...

Mesenteric lymphadenopathy is an inflammatory condition affecting the lymphnodes whose presentation classically mistaken for acute appendicitis and intussusception. It most commonly occur in children, adolescence young adults. The cause of mesenteric infection especially tuberculous. A 30 year old female having 8 month. complete case history was taken on basis repertorisation individualization ...

personalized medicine as a novel field of medicine refers to the prescription of specific therapeutics procedure for an individual. this approach has established based on pharmacogenetic and pharmacogenomic information and data. the terms precision and personalized medicines are sometimes applied interchangeably. however, there has been a shift from “personalized medicine” towards “precision me...

Individualized treatment is a basic feature of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and individualized efficacy evaluation is also emphasized in TCM clinical practice. Individualized evaluation is in favor of improving intervention continuously, and optimizing the TCM evidenceusing pattern gradually. Traditional case reports can better demonstrate the efficacy of individual, but lack of standard...

President Barack Obama announced the launch of the National Institutes of Health Precision Medicine Initiative® (PMI) in January 2015. Precision medicine includes the concept of individualized or personalized medicine at a more exact level through advances in science and technology, such as genetics and genomics sequencing. Although many disease processes will be investigated through the precis...