May 7, 2010
Seattle Times
Well, that's a brilliant idea
By Nicole Brodeur
Sometime in the next 10 years or so, we'll each be seen as a walking, breathing collection of so-called "data points."
Clinicians will be able to use that data to detect our risk for disease — Alzheimer's, cancer — then set out a plan to prevent it. It sounds like X-ray glasses. With scrubs. But to Leroy Hood, it's something he calls P4 medicine: predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory. And he is the pioneer behind it....
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