Thursday, August 30, 2012

A brilliant case for personalized medicines

Most of current medicines don't work, simply because they're not adapted to your specific DNA. With the declining cost of profiling your genome, however, drugs in the future will be tailor-made to your specific needs. According to Mehmet Oz, this would enable us to treat diseases like Alzheimer well in advance.

But perhaps the most striking statement is that we shouldn't expect the health care sector, nor the government, to make this happen. This revolution should be made from within our homes...

A fascinating discussion:

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