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Michael O. Leavitt and Raju Kucherlapati

The great promise of personalized medicine

By Michael O. Leavitt and Raju Kucherlapati
December 26, 2008

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New scientific tools can take the guesswork out of medicine -- by matching treatments to a person's genetic variations and differentiating between subtypes of disease. Such personalized medicine should should be a goal of healthcare reform. (Full article: 667 words)

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