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Precision medicine aims to integrate personal factors into what is known from studies into the care of an individual. Roy Ziegelstein, vice dean for education at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, says personomics, which includes all the personal factors …
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Clinical practice guidelines attempt to standardize care for many diseases and conditions, yet in the process they remove humanity from the mix. Personomics, a term coined by Roy Ziegelstein, vice dean for education at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, …
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Interacting with our healthcare system can be dehumanizing, and we need to reemphasize humans as individuals. That’s according to Roy Ziegelstein, vice dean of education at John Hopkins School of Medicine, coining a term known as ‘personomics.’ Zeigelstein notes that …
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Diabetes is known to be linked to cardiovascular disease, and now a new study adds to the condition’s association with cancer. Plasma prostasin levels were shown to predict whether a participant would develop diabetes and cancer, and may be useful …
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Thyroid cancers are most often found because someone is being evaluated for another issue and imaging finds a cancer, a very large international study concludes. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says it’s unclear what …
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Men get cancer more often than women, a recent study concludes, along with speculation that genetic or hormonal factors may be the culprit. Not so fast, says Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson. Nelson: They found thyroid cancer …
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