Precision Medicine

Precision medicine (PM) is a medical model that proposes the customization of healthcare, with medical decisions, treatments, practices, or products being tailored to the individual patient. In this model, diagnostic testing is often employed for selecting appropriate and optimal therapies based on the context of a patient’s genetic content or other molecular or cellular analysis. Tools employed in precision medicine can include molecular diagnostics, imaging, and analytics.

 

In the present book, thirty typical literatures about precision medicine published on international authoritative journals were selected to introduce the worldwide newest progress, which contains reviews or original researches on precision medicine, healthcare, medical decisions, treatments, practices, etc. We hope this book can demonstrate advances in genome editing as well as give references to the researchers, students and other related people.

Components of the Book:
  • Chapter 1
    Precision diabetes: learning from monogenic diabetes
  • Chapter 2
    Lifestyle and precision diabetes medicine: will genomics help optimise the prediction, prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes through lifestyle therapy?
  • Chapter 3
    Serum magnesium and the risk of prediabetes: a population-based cohort study
  • Chapter 4
    Painting a new picture of personalised medicine for diabetes
  • Chapter 5
    Determination of the Porosity of PLGA Microparticles by Tracking Their Sedimentation Velocity Using a Flow Imaging Microscope (FlowCAM)
  • Chapter 6
    Textural features of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scanning in diagnosing aortic prosthetic graft infection
  • Chapter 7
    Genetics of obesity: can an old dog teach us new tricks?
  • Chapter 8
    MRI shows thickening and altered diffusion in the median and ulnar nerves in multifocal motor neuropathy
  • Chapter 9
    Building towards precision medicine: empowering medical professionals for the next revolution
  • Chapter 10
    Emergency medical genomes: a breakthrough application of precision medicine
  • Chapter 11
    Reconciling evidence-based medicine and precision medicine in the era of big data: challenges and opportunities
  • Chapter 12
    The new field of ‘precision psychiatry’
  • Chapter 13
    Study protocol: precision of a protocol for manual intramuscular needle placement checked by passive stretching and relaxing of the target muscle in the lower extremity during BTX-A treatment in children with spastic cerebral palsy, as verified by means of electrical stimulation
  • Chapter 14
    Allergen Immunotherapy (AIT): a prototype of Precision Medicine
  • Chapter 15
    Clinical decision support systems for improving diagnostic accuracy and achieving precision medicine
Readership: Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Precision Medicine.
Jeroen H. F. de Baaij, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Albert Hofman, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Mark I. McCarthy, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK

Giles S. H. Yeo, Medical Research Council (MRC) Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, UK

P. Hellings, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Christopher W. Seymour, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3550 Terrace Street, 639 Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA

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