Precision Medicine: What Does it Mean for Your Health? | CDC Eat

Precision medicine, sometimes called personalized medicine, is an approach for protecting health and treating disease that takes into account a person’s genes, behaviors, and environment. Interventions are tailored to individuals or groups, rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach in which everyone receives the same care. But what does this mean and how can precision medicine protect your health?


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  • SourceUrl: https://www.cdc.gov/features/precision-medicine/index.html
  • Syndication ID: 16395
  • Language: English
  • Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Date Syndication Captured: Monday, December 19, 2016 at 01:13 PM
  • Date Syndication Updated: Monday, December 19, 2016 at 01:13 PM

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