Personalizing Precision Medicine: A Global Voyage from Vision to Reality

by: Kristin Ciriello Pothier

ISBN-10: 1118792114

ISBN-13: 9781118792117

Edition: 1
Released:2017-09-12

Paperback: 272 pages
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Book Description
The author uses decades of experience and interviews with experts in precision medicine to explain past, present, and future of precision medicine. She reviews the full continuum of personalizing precision medicine, including diagnostics, therapeutics, big data, supportive care, regulation, and reimbursement and innovation in precision medicine worldwide.
Combines a unique cross section of history, current technologies, and future directions for how precision medicine has and will affect people worldwide
Reviews precision medicine around the world, including the US, China, Japan, the Middle East, India, Europe, and Latin America
Discusses a number of diseases areas – cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, infectious disease, pain, immunology, rare diseases
Includes information and quotes from over 100 interviews with key industry experts in biotech, pharma, informatics, diagnostics, health providers, advocacy groups, and more.
Includes stories illustrating current issues and future promises in precision medicine for a human touch
Table of Contents
Part 1:The History
Chapter 1 The Right Drug, The Right Patient, The Right Time
Chapter 2 Decision‐Making Machines
Chapter 3 Precision Medicine Around The World
Part 2:The Present
Chapter 4 Our Reality Today
Chapter 5 Toward The Day We Just Call It “Medicine”
Chapter 6 Precision Medicine Around The World
Chapter 7 Shifting Rules
Chapter 8 Precision Medicine Around The World
Chapter 9 Patients As The Poorest Princesses
Chapter 10 Informatics Under The Hood
Chapter 11 Precision Medicine Around The World
Part 3:The Future
Chapter 12 A Personalized Stomach
Chapter 13 Consumer Is King
Chapter 14 Precision Medicine Around The World
Chapter 15 Sci‐Fi Potential
Chapter 16 Precision Medicine Around The World
Chapter 17 A New Hope