tled Personalised Care, to be presented at the Medica Education Conference 2013 (21 November), Sir John will re-buff any cynicism over personalised medicine ever having a role in healthcare. He will outline just how genome analysis detects an individual’s genetic predisposition for certain diseases and how better assessment of their prognosis will play a greater role as personalised medicine ta...

• personalised medicine with individually tailored treatment • more evidence-based decision making within healthcare • less complications during and after surgery • better understanding of the effect of treatments on diseases The rapid development in medical research produces a continuous stream of new knowledge about disease processes, new therapeutic targets and the complex relationship betwe...

Rather than seek to distinguish hype from legitimate promise, it may be more helpful to think about personalised medicine as embodying a promissory economy which serves both to mobilize resources for research and - partly at least - to determine the ends to which that research is directed. Personalised medicine is a development of the larger promissory economy of medical biotechnology. As such,...

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease comprising several phenotypes driven by different pathways. To define these phenotypes or endotypes (phenotypes defined by mechanisms), an unbiased approach to clustering of various omics platforms will yield molecular phenotypes from which composite biomarkers can be obtained. Biomarkers can help differentiate between these phenotypes and pinpoint patients sui...