Drug treatment is in many cases ineffective. Besides patients who do not respond to the treatment can develop so called adverse drug reactions (ADRs) as a consequence of the treatment (cause over 100 000 deaths per year in USA). Pharmacogenetics is the discipline, which takes the patient’s genetic information of drug transporters, drug metabolising enzymes and drug receptors into account leadin...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the intervention effect of individualized aerobic exercise on type 2 diabetes in teenagers. METHOD To select 60 cases of teenager with type 2 diabetes in Zhoukou Hospital of Traditional Medicine in February 2013 to February 2014 as the research object, test all enrolled patients' maximal oxygen and blood glucose fluctuation, and then give individualized aerobic exerci...

Precision medicine, which optimizes diagnosis and treatment of diseases according to individualized characteristics, is becoming a reality in the field diabetes, especially for monogenic diabetes. Maturityonset diabetes young (MODY) type characterized by early onset, relative non-obesity, non-insulin dependence, autosomal dominant inheritance. With trend toward precision medicine improvement ge...

State of art of personalized monitoring programs informatization and improvement of human adaptation abilities as one of the preferred direction of personalized (individualized, personalized) medicine which is focused on disclosure of potential and adaptive capabilities of human body and increase of life expectancy by means of directed patient-associated diagnostic and treatment effects on the ...

Personalized medicine is increasingly being employed across many areas of clinical practice, as genes associated with specific diseases are discovered and targeted therapies are developed. Mobile apps are also beginning to be used in medicine with the aim of providing a personalized approach to disease management. In some areas of medicine, patient-tailored risk prediction and treatment are app...

The seven categories of alternative medicine, as established by the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine, are mind-body interventions, bioelectromagnetic therapies, alternative systems of medical practice, manual healing methods, pharmacologic and biologic treatments, herbal medicine, and diet and nutrition. Mind-body approaches have been shown to be effective in a varie...

Individualized treatment effect lies at the heart of precision medicine. Interpretable individualized rules (ITRs) are desirable for clinicians or policymakers due to their intuitive appeal and transparency. The gold-standard approach estimating ITRs is randomized experiments, where subjects different groups confounding bias minimized extent possible. However, experimental studies limited in ex...

The paper discusses how information based medicine has become an increasingly important model of healthcare. Today's patients are better informed and therefore play a more active role in their own healthcare, fuelling the drive towards personalized medicine. Information Based Medicine enables researchers to design targeted therapeutics and rapidly develop best practices guidelines to enable hea...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is popular among patients with cancer and often is used in conjunction with conventional medicine, mostly without the knowledge or guidance of healthcare professionals. The popularity of CAM has brought into sharp focus clinical issues such as the lack of disclosure and concern about interactions among dietary supplements, prescribed medications, and...

New York: Basic Books; 2012 ISBN: 0465025501 Hard cover, 303 pages Until my mentor recommended this book, I did not imagine the future of medicine, ‘digitalized and individualized’, seriously. Our world is rapidly digitalized and connected with each other. However, it seems that the medical field wants to be the last land to be changed. Have you ever imagined how the medicine will change when t...