Textbook of Personalized Medicine

• Main Author: Jain, Kewal K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacology.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Biotechnology.; Biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Biochemistry, general.

Personalized medicine is the concept that selection of a treatment should be tailored according to the individual patient’s specific characteristics, including age, gender, height/weight, ethnicity, diet, and environment , versus a decision based on ‘standards of care’ derived by averaging responses...