UPDATE: Personalized Medicine Poised to Become Part of US Healthcare Reform Plan
March 24, 2010
UPDATE: Personalized Medicine Poised to Become Part of US Healthcare Reform Plan
The healthcare reform bill includes a section on comparative effectiveness research that creates the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Seen as a victory for personalized medicine, the institute will study the utility of medical products in "various subpopulations," including groups differentiated by genetic and molecular subtypes.
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