(Official White House Photo By Chuck Kennedy)
In his State of the Union speech, the president touted a "Precision Medicine Initiative," and Tabitha M. Powledge joins other bloggers in wondering what he meant: "Maybe he was talking about what is usually called personalized medicine, with diagnosis and treatment based on a patient’s genetic makeup?" If so, she writes, "Obama’s use of 'precision' rather than 'personalized' signals a decision by somebody somewhere that 'precision medicine' is now the official label."
