Personalised medicine could offer promising results in healthcare, says report

New Delhi, January 12, 2022:

Personalized medicine is fast becoming the most promising new field in medical science and advancements in technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and genetic sequencing, developments in wearables, etc. could help to attain more results in future, says a latest report.

In its second report on personalised medicine, healthcare brand strategy and communication firm Rediffusion Healthcare said that perhaps more than any other medical advance, the effects of personalized medicine on the lives of people will be unprecedented as well as transformational. As more and more healthcare professionals wake up to the immense possibilities of this new medical field, attention is being focused on specific applications.

Personalized or precision medicine research is currently underway at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University as well as in various other centres in the Middle East, Stanford and Harvard Universities in the United States, the American National Cancer Institute, University College London, and Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia, it said.

Artificial intelligence and genetic sequencing have now opened up a new world of personalized medicine. With AI analysing the huge amount of data and genetic sequencing identifying genetic markers of disease, personalised medicine would be of crucial benefit to the healthcare sector. Advances in diagnostics and wearables also come together to support this process.

Personalised medicine can help in arenas like hormone therapy to quickly and effectively device special treatment methods for hormonal imbalance patients; developing individual prescriptions for people by analysing their DNA and detailed bio profile through personalised medicine could control drug reactions in patients including those who have chronic diseases such as diabetes.

While it is easy now to identify genes responsible for rare diseases like muscular dystrophy or Parkinson’s disease, it is becoming more possible to identify certain cancer markers or even things like heart disease.

“In addition to warning us in advance of this potential threat, using a gene-editing tool called CRISPR, we can now repair or remove genetic material within our cells. It is still early in development, but the future possibilities could mean that we could permanently be rid of some extremely malignant diseases without having to suffer from them. Personalized medicine could identify gene markers and edit them out, without even requiring us to change our lifestyles or take any medication,” said the report.

Personalized medicine could also lead to the development of medicines tailored at specific cancer cells which would destroy only those cells. Current cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation destroy large amounts of healthy and non-cancerous cells leading to various side effects. This could be avoided entirely, and viruses or nano particles could be used to target only those cells which could lead to cancer.

In the case of dietary supplements, individually tailoring vitamins and supplements can be a problem especially since it requires constant monitoring. Personalized medicine can solve this problem and can additionally come up with new warnings or suggestions depending on how you react to a specific place or a specific routine, it added.  PharmaBiz