What is Genomic Medicine?
Visiting your doctor? Chances are you will talk a while about your symptoms. Then the doctor will perform an examination. Then you’ll likely get a prescription or a treatment plan. Take the medicine according to the directions and, all being well, you’ll get better. That’s the way it’s supposed to work, and in most cases, most of the time, it works pretty well. Doctors figure out the problem and patients get better. That’s been medicine for a hundred years or more. However, some diseases are more difficult to deal with. Cancer, heart disease, and diabetes are a few of these, and they affect the lives of many people. In such cases, doctors are hard-pressed to prescribe a one-stop solution. Even if they do diagnose correctly, and prescribe the drugs that are most likely to work, the patient might fail to respond. What’s going on? It’s most likely genetics. Due to differences in the genetic code, the instructions for life that makes everyone unique, any one of us may or may not respond to
