Carina's case and others like it are the success stories of an approach to medicine that focuses on individual differences in patients' genes, often in combination with information about their environment, health history, and lifestyle. It's called precision medicine, a broad term most often used to describe an approach that combines data from many different sources to create a medical portrait of each person and design more effective, targeted treatments. It's a big shift from our current medical model, which focuses on generic approaches and treatments suitable for as many people as possible, but its potential helped motivate a $215 million investment by the White House to help develop it.
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