Personalizing Precision Medicine – A Global Voyage from Vision to Reality
A Global Voyage from Vision to Reality
Samenvatting
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
Specificaties
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<p>Introduction ix</p>
<p>Methodology xiii</p>
<p>About the Author xv</p>
<p>Part 1 The History 1</p>
<p>1 The Right Drug, the Right Patient, the Right Time: Foundations of Precision Medicine 3</p>
<p>2 Decision –Making Machines: Diagnostics in Precision Medicine 27</p>
<p>3 Precision Medicine around the World: Europe 37</p>
<p>Part 2 The Present 51</p>
<p>4 Our Reality Today: The Patient Journey in Precision Medicine 53</p>
<p>5 Toward the Day We Just Call It Medicine : Access to Precision Medicine 65</p>
<p>6 Precision Medicine around the World: Japan 81</p>
<p>7 Shifting Rules: Regulation and Reimbursement in Precision Medicine 89</p>
<p>8 Precision Medicine around the World: Latin America 105</p>
<p>9 Patients as the Poorest Princesses: Supportive Care in Precision Medicine 125</p>
<p>10 Informatics under the Hood: Information in Precision Medicine 135</p>
<p>11 Precision Medicine around the World: India 149</p>
<p>Part 3 The Future 157</p>
<p>12 A Personalized Stomach: Precision Medicine beyond Cancer 159</p>
<p>13 Consumer Is King: Consumer Applications of Precision Medicine 181</p>
<p>14 Precision Medicine around the World: The Middle East 197</p>
<p>15 Sci –Fi Potential: CRISPR as the Next Novel Frontier in Precision Medicine 207</p>
<p>16 Precision Medicine around the World: China 223</p>
<p>17 A New Hope: The Future of Precision Medicine 231</p>
<p>Afterword 241</p>
<p>Index 243</p>