This week an article that stuck out to me the most was about using people’s DNA to be able to help prevent and treat diseases. This article is called White House Details ‘Precision Medicine’ Initiative and I found it very intriguing because I am very interested in figuring out how or why people get diseases and the best ways to cure them. This article explained how DNA sequencing can be used to first understand what diseases a person may be most likely to get. Therefore, doctors can personalize prevention programs for specific people based on their own genetic makeup. However, if people already have diseases, this DNA sequencing can be used to determine which treatment options would be the most effective. This is beneficial because people can save money, time, and frustration when trying to cure their illnesses.
Another video that I watched focused on a clinical trial about health care professionals being able to track their patients more efficiently and more effectively by giving them the technology to do so. Wearables give doctors access to real-time data about their patients which also makes it simpler for doctors to figure out what their patients need. The wearables give information like heart rate, sleep time, motion, body position, and events like tremors. I thought that this video could also relate to precision medicine because it would allow doctors to be able to track their patients if they prescribed anything from exercise to sleep. Also, for people with heart conditions, heart rate can be monitored as well.
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