Previously, I wrote about some wonderful developments taking place in medical science. Implantable or attachable devices already exist - or soon will be - that can monitor the conditions for diabetics, asthmatics, heart patients and patients with many other chronic diseases. These devices allow patients and physicians to change therapy regimes and therapies tailored to the individual needs and responses. Genetic testing of the point is reached where the patients need to take certain medications or to avoid other drugs that can only be on one's own genes.
Cut almost all HIV treatment in these days to the therapy cocktails for each individual patient. The FDA has approved a breast cancer drug for women with a certain genetic makeup. Patients are advised to steer clear one ADHD drug and certain blood thinners, if they have certain genetic variations.
We are entering the era of personalized medicine, where the treatment that is best for you is based on your physiology and genetic material - and may not be right for other patients.
But standing in the way this is a limitless potential Obama administration, the entire approach. Healthcare reform revolves around the idea that patients are not unique and that bureaucrats develop standardized treatments that apply almost all with a certain state When former White House health advisor Ezekiel Emanuel recently told CNN that "personalized medicine is a myth," he was fully reflecting the worldview of the authors of health reform
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