More On Unique, Personalized Medicine

Randall Parker of FuturePundit adds his thoughts on the future of unique personalized medicine heralded by falling costs. "Precise disease prediction will be feasible for many diseases. For example, I would expect disease prediction to be much more feasible for osteoarthritis, heart disease, kidney disease, and other ailments that strike once sufficient damage has accumulated over time. Also, predictive capabilities will become more useful as our toolbox of treatments expands. Why wait for a knee to become painful and severely damaged if we can detect the problem years earlier and send in stem cells to do repairs before repair becomes much more difficult."

Link: http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002744.html

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