At SAP Leonardo Live last month, the most interesting presentation was by Cristiano Buss, the CIO of Stara S/A. Stara is a Brazilian manufacturer of farm equipment. The company has gone through two ...

Ivacaftor, the first drug that targeted the underlying defect of cystic fibrosis (CF), which affects about 30,000 people in the United States, improved outcomes and reduced hospitalizations, according ...

Precision medicine seeks to identify and classify individual patients so that optimal treatment decisions can be made. Nations are recognizing this area of research by developing national cohorts from ...

Precision medicine sounds like an inarguably good thing. It begins with the observation that individuals vary in their genetic makeup and that their diseases and responses to medications differ as a ...

When Is Precision Medicine Used for Cancer Treatment? Physicians may use precision medicine in oncology when a tumor fails to respond to current standard treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation ...

Precision medicine, also referred to as personalized medicine, is the opposite of a “one-treatment-fits-all” model, instead tailoring disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment based on a person’s ...

“My Patient Was Diagnosed With Nontargetable Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer. What Now?” Diagnosis and Initial Treatment Options for Newly Diagnosed Patients With Advanced NSCLC Pathologic ...

Imagine being told that everyone needs to wear one specific pair of low-riding jeans at all times regardless of their age, body configuration, surroundings, or life situation. This could leave you ...