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Magnifying glass for precision medicine

First Opinion By Richard Cooper and Nigel Paneth

Precision medicine: course correction urgently needed

Stem Cell_s3

First Opinion By David A. Pearce

We need better regulation of stem cell therapies, especially rogue clinics

Bananas

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

Our body systems age at different rates, study finds, pointing to personalized care to extend healthy life

Health Tech By Casey Ross

How an AI expert took on his toughest project ever: writing code to save his son’s life

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

The boy was dying. Zebrafish helped save his life

“World Map Genome illustration”

In the Lab By Sharon Begley

Buffalo gave us spicy wings and the ‘book of life.’ Here’s why that’s undermining personalized medicine

FADING HELIX

First Opinion By Michael J. Joyner and Nigel Paneth

Precision medicine’s rosy predictions haven’t come true. We need fewer promises and more debate

Archery targets

First Opinion By Harris A. Gelbard

Multi-target drugs should be in the pharma pipeline along with precision drugs

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lung illustration

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Deaths from the most common lung cancer are falling fast, hinting at the impact of improved treatment

red droplets

In the Lab By Elizabeth Cooney

New findings about little-studied cellular compartments could help make chemo more effective

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Lung Cancer Cells - for ASCO

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Recapping ASCO 2020, talking cancer therapy combinations, and looking to the future

STAT SPOTLIGHT

Biotech By Elizabeth Cooney

Startup Spotlight: Aiming to speed precision cancer therapies to children

First Opinion By Gwen Nichols

Precision medicine has a blind spot: children with cancer

Factory

First Opinion By Amy DuRoss

To make advanced therapies, we need to industrialize personalization

Pancreatic cancer organoid

In the Lab By Karen Weintraub

Growing tumors in a dish, scientists try to personalize pancreatic cancer treatment

The cost of medicine

First Opinion By Edward Abrahams

Personalized treatments may be threatened by drug cost-containment proposals

Asbestos - tremolite

Health Tech By Casey Ross

What if AI in health care is the next asbestos?

First Opinion By Rahul Desikan

I have ALS. I wish a polygenic analysis had told me it was coming

Medicare for all democrats

First Opinion By Jim Tananbaum

Pharma and biotech should embrace ‘Medicare for all,’ not defeat it

Scripps Research Institute

Health By Rebecca Robbins, Adam Feuerstein and Damian Garde

He went hunting for gold-standard research on artificial intelligence in medicine — and didn’t find much

Toby the dog

Business By Rebecca Robbins

With human drugs, a Silicon Valley startup hopes to deliver precision medicine to dogs

IVF

First Opinion By Lee D. Cooper

Genetic testing plus IVF can sidestep genetic disease and reduce the need for high-priced therapies

Foundation Medicine

Biotech By Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

For one cancer patient, biotech’s genetic test turns out to be a ‘lifesaver’

Kristen Kilmer

Health By Liz Szabo — Kaiser Health News

Pricey precision medicine often financially toxic for cancer patients

Network connections

First Opinion By Richard G. Hamermesh and Kathy E. Giusti

Precision medicine needs a business mindset in order to flourish

President Obama Signs 21st Century Cures Act

First Opinion By Joel C. White

Administrative delays threaten the promise of the 21st Century Cures Act

Kidney dialysis

First Opinion By Franklin W. Maddux

Kidney disease is a killer. More precise classification can help tame it

Curative Therapy Cost

First Opinion By Robert W. Dubois

Paying for therapies that cure: innovative solutions needed

Prescription form

First Opinion By Akbar K. Waljee, Sameer D. Saini and Brahmajee K. Nallamothu

Doctors could prescribe drugs more accurately — if they could get the data

Wong Maye-E/AP

First Opinion By Chadi Nabhan

Barriers to genomic testing get in the way of precision medicine

Genetic Frontiers Million Person Study

First Opinion By Eric Dishman

I handed over my genetic data to the NIH. Here’s why you should, too

Depression research

In the Lab By Megan Thielking

Can precision medicine do for depression what it’s done for cancer? It won’t be easy

human skin cells

In the Lab By Megha Satyanarayana

Scientists created neurons from people who are extremely overweight. Is this the future of personalized obesity treatment?