The 07/07/2016
Medicine is the same for everyone. However, each individual is different and reacts differently to the treatments offered which may prove ineffective in some cases. Research has been carried out and suggests personalized medicine, more suited to each type of person.
Treatment adapted to everyone
According to research, humans have a similarity of 99%, but the remaining 1% represents a very big difference when it comes to health, that is, resistance or susceptibility to a disease or disease. processing. The study was done in patients with depression and what emerges is that not everyone responds to antidepressants in the same way.
A team of researchers from King’s College London in the United Kingdom has set up a blood test, which can predict the effectiveness of antidepressants on a person. It has been shown that antidepressants will be effective in patients with a rate of inflammation below a certain threshold, unlike those whose rate will be higher.
Identify the problem at its root
Research was conducted in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration on patients with cystic fibrosis. For 4% of them, the problem comes from a mutation in the G551D gene, which regulates the transport of salt and water in the body. The medicine most often given to these patients is Ivacaftor or Kalydeco (trade name). It can help about 1,200 Americans by being the first treatment to target the problem at its root rather than the symptoms.
With regard to cancer, the treatment given to patients is individual. In 2011, an infographic was published in the Wall Street Journal, showing that 21% of cancers are linked to genetic mutations in the head and neck and 73% are caused by melanoma. Specific drugs exist to target this or that type of mutations.
Jen Trowbridge, a researcher at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, specifies that “theConventional medicine continues to treat symptoms, but geneticists are now working to secure the right to treat a person at the root of their disease, when cancer begins. “.
People with tinnitus can now be cured thanks to new technological advances. The personalized tinnitus mask, which reduces the inconvenience associated with these symptoms, sends tailor-made audio signals, which can be configured according to the patient’s needs.
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