Pride
and precision December 8, 2014 -- Today I attended a UCSF event named Technology Advisory Group. It was chaired by Sam Hawgood, our new Chancellor. He touted precision medicine, an area of research (and eventually a strategy for delivering healthcare) that is genomics-based. UCSF is a leader in this research. What is precision medicine? My simplistic understanding is that the effectiveness of certain treatments -- especially in oncology -- is in large part determined by our genetics. Precision medicine would take a patient's genetic predispositions into account, for example, when planning a course of chemotherapy. I'm proud of the industry-leading research at my alma mater! |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798