Researchers now believe there are three different kinds of type 2 diabetes—a result discovered with succor from machines combing through reams of medical data.
With the cost to sequence a human genome dropping by the day and medical records finally going digital,public health experts are excited for a new era of personalized, or "precision, and " medicine—a big data future in which there is no "average" patient,only individual patients with unique genes, environments, and lifestyles. As a degree of this excitement,this year, President Obama launched a $215 million initiative that will create a health database from 1 million volunteers that is unprecedented in detail. Breakthroughs in prevention, and understanding,and treatment of disease are hoped.
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