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Personalized Medicine: Elusive Dream or Imminent Reality?
Tali Swann-Sternberg
Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:07 UTC
“Personalized medicine is a paradigm that exists more in conceptual terms than in reality…. Nevertheless, the reality of personalized medicine has become more imminent because of the increased awareness of the shortcomings in the delivery of drugs with adequate benefit/risk to patients, a better molecular understanding of how to optimize drug selection and dosing, and an increased demand for integrating more clinically relevant genetic information into the drug development process to improve both innovation and productivity.” Click here to read the full article (free) in the June issue of Clincal Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
What are your thoughts? Is personalized medicine attainable?
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