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Discovering Precision Health - Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being (Hardcover)
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Discovering Precision Health - Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being (Hardcover)
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Today we are on the brink of a much-needed transformative moment
for health care. The U.S. health care system is designed to be
reactive instead of preventive. The result is diagnoses that are
too late and outcomes that are far worse than our level of spending
should deliver. In recent years, U.S. life expectancy has been
declining. Fundamental to realizing better health, and a more
effective health care system, is advancing the disruptive thinking
that has spawned innovation in Silicon Valley and throughout the
world. That's exactly what Stanford Medicine has done by proposing
a new vision for health and health care. In Discovering Precision
Health, Lloyd Minor and Matthew Rees describe a holistic approach
that will set health care on the right track: keep people healthy
by preventing disease before it starts and personalize the
treatment of individuals precisely, based on their specific
profile. With descriptions of the pioneering work undertaken at
Stanford Medicine, complemented by fascinating case studies of
innovations from entities including the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub,
GRAIL, and Impossible Foods, Minor and Rees present a dynamic
vision for the future of individual health and health care. You ll
see how tools from smartphone technology to genome sequencing to
routine blood tests are helping avert illness and promote health.
And you'll learn about the promising progress already underway in
bringing greater precision to the process of predicting,
preventing, and treating a range of conditions, including
allergies, mental illness, preterm birth, cancer, stroke, and
autism. The book highlights how biomedical advances are
dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex
diseases, while emphasizing the need to devote more attention to
social, behavioral, and environmental factors that are often the
primary determinants of health. The authors explore
thought-provoking topics including: The unlikely role of Google
Glass in treating autism How gene editing can advance precision in
treating disease What medicine can learn from aviation Discovering
Precision Health showcases entirely new ways of thinking about
health and health care and can help empower us to lead healthier
lives.
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