Mini-review on personalized medicine: a revolution in health care

Abstract

—Health care has evolved since the reduction in mortality caused by infections as well as chronic and noncommunicable diseases. This has had a direct influence on the expense of public health and individual health care, as well as the quality of health care. It’s time to move away from traditional reactive medicine centered on symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment to a system that targets illness before it develops and, if it cannot be prevented, treats it in a customized manner. The expansion of established techniques to understanding and treating disease is personalized medicine. Individual genetic and epigenetic information is a fast-growing multiple-faceted therapeutic strategy, used to customize pharmacological therapy or preventative treatment. Personalized medicine seeks to make early intervention better diagnoses and to improve medication development and therapy. In this study, the impact of customized medicine on the therapy, its applications, and prospects for healthcare are evaluated.