Personalized Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls

Personalized Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) describes personalized medicine as “the right patient with the right drug at the right dose at the right time,” and it certainly is a timely and emerging medical practice. Personalized Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls, by Gloria Gronowicz, begins with a unique perspective: the author’s own personal anecdote about the very day she was diagnosed with stage...

Personalized medicine in psychiatry: problems and promises

The central theme of personalized medicine is the premise that an individual's unique physiologic characteristics play a significant role in both disease vulnerability and in response to specific therapies. The major goals of personalized medicine are therefore to predict an individual's susceptibility to developing an illness, achieve accurate diagnosis, and optimize the most efficient and fav...

Prospecting for Precision: Promises for Personalized Medicine.

The human genome and molecular medicine - promises and pitfalls.

The promises and pitfalls of evidence-based medicine.

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) aims to address the persistent problem of clinical practice variation with the help of various tools, including standardized practice guidelines. While advocates welcome the stronger scientific foundation of such guidelines, critics fear that they will lead to "cookbook medicine." Studies show, however, that few guidelines lead to consistent changes in provider beh...