Can Precision Medicine Be The Future Of Healthcare?

The concept of precision medicine emerged several years ago. However, there is still massive confusion about its definition, link to personalized medicine, and differences between conventional medicine and its potential uses.

Precision medicine is about matching the right drugs or treatments to the right people based on a genetic or molecular understanding of their disease. It is an approach to patient care based on the idea that one person's disease isnʼt necessarily precisely the same as someone else who seemingly has the same disease.

Your genes and environment can influence your health conditions, the potential disease symptoms, and even how your body will react to the prescribed drugs: efficacy, efficiency, and safety.

Precision medicine gives more comprehension of how gene variations, proteins, environment, and other factors can influence health status.

Difference Between Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicine

Genetics Home Reference (G.H.R.), the U.S. National Library of Medicine website for consumer information related to genetic conditions, has just issued a new primer on precision medicine to help disseminate this evolving concept.

According to the N.I.H., precision medicine is "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person."

The new G.H.R.…