Is Personalized Medicine Being Properly/Fully Utilized?

An article published in Nature last month describes a recent trend in which “oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients’ tumors, even when those treatments have not been approved for the particular...

Two New Personalized Medicines Approved by FDA So Far in 2015

I received a marketing circular last week from the organizers of the 2016 Personalized Medicine World Conference that included a message from the conference chair, Atul Butte, who made the following statement: “The high volume of targeted drugs recently approved...

New Approaches To Identifying Targeted Therapeutics

Making the maximum use of discoveries that have already been made is a central interest of mine, and a couple of recent articles have described novel ways that targeted therapies might be “discovered” for individual patients. A group at MIT has developed a...