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Personalized medicine may do more to treat rather than prevent chronic diseases

  • Written by Sharon Horesh Bergquist, Physician, teacher, researcher in preventive medicine and healthy aging, Emory University
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Personalized medicine, which involves tailoring health care to each person’s unique genetic makeup, has the potential to transform how we diagnose, prevent and treat disease. After all, no two people are alike. Mapping a person’s unique susceptibility...

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