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#19 Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative
#19 Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative
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Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Feb 2, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
President Barack Obama proposed the Precision Medicine Initiative. It has a $215 million investment in the President’s 2016 Budget. This initiative focuses on the making major advances in personalized medicine. This means tailoring the treatments based on specific characteristics of individuals, such as a person’s genetic makeup, or the genetic profile of an individual’s tumor.
Released:
Feb 2, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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