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personalized medicine
noun
- an approach to the practice of medicine that uses information about a patient’s unique genetic makeup and environment to customize the patient's medical care.
Word History and Origins
Origin of personalized medicine1
Example Sentences
This finding may represent a step toward the development of personalized medicine for autoimmune diseases.
Having confirmed that healthy individuals and those under effective treatment show higher proportions of these cells than individuals in acute phases of the disease, Chihara thinks that this knowledge will enable clinicians to easily determine the effectiveness of the treatment in future diagnoses and thus is a step towards more personalized medicine.
"AMPLON has the potential to positively change the way molecular analysis and clinical diagnostics are performed," said Mohamed S. Draz, an assistant professor at the School of Medicine and the study's principal investigator, "from infectious-disease diagnostics to personalized medicine and environmental monitoring."
Machine learning has pushed the boundaries in several fields, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars and customized advertisements.
"Our research suggests that AI could soon support doctors in emergency rooms by making quick, informed decisions about patient admissions. This work opens the door for further innovation in health care AI, encouraging the development of models that can reason and learn from limited data, like human experts do," says co-senior author Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH, Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Medicine at Icahn Mount Sinai, Director of The Charles Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine, and System Chief of D3M.
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