October 25, 2016
Getting It RIGHT — Individualized Medicine Is Getting Very Personal
By Sharon Rosen
10,000 people help answer a basic individualized medicine question Nearly 1 out of every 3 American adults has high blood pressure. About 70 percent of them take medication for their condition, but only half have it under control. Why? The answer gets to the heart of individualized medicine: Because each person has a unique genetic […]
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April 29, 2016
Mayo Clinic Honored for Research Advocacy
By Jeff Briggs
Whether it’s the RIGHT Protocol, the BEAUTY breast cancer trial, or the PROMOTE prostate cancer study, the Center for Individualized Medicine is actively engaged in biomedical research. In fact, improving patient care by turning genomic research into real-world personalized medicine applications, particularly new and better genomics-based diagnostic tests, is one of the fundamental goals here. […]
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March 9, 2016
Pharmacogenomics: RIGHT Protocol
By Jeff Briggs
Faithful readers of the Center for Individualized Medicine blog will remember when a little more than a month ago, we posted the Pharmacogenomics Primer. In the primer, we mention there’s a mantra here in the Pharmacogenomics Program: the right drug, at the right dose, at the right time. Now, we can just call it the […]
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