The FDA’s big personalized-medicine push

The FDA’s big personalized-medicine push

(UPDATED: See below.)

Personalized medicine — the idea that doctors will one day tailor your medical care based on your genetic profile — has been a long time coming, as I’ve previously written. As it turns out, that’s no fault of the Food and Drug Administration, which… Continue Reading

Patients, CEOs and ideologues vs. evidence-based medicine

Patients, CEOs and ideologues vs. evidence-based medicine

The first time you hear it, “evidence-based medicine” sounds like one of those goofily redundant phrases like “animated cartoon” or “past experience.” Aren’t doctors always carrying out studies of one sort or another? Isn’t medicine evidence-based already?

Well, no, not really. One of the biggest… Continue Reading