Genetics and your health: toward personalized medicine

Personalized medicine is tailored to each person’s unique genetic makeup, enabling more precise and powerful diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and prevention of diseases. 

We’re already starting to see the benefits of personalized medicine, and our children and grandchildren will live longer and healthier lives as this emerging field develops.


Personalized medicine

watch video Improving human health through genomics and personalized medicine. President and CEO Rick Woychik's talk, given Aug. 15, 2009, at Jackson’s Annual Meeting and Discovery Day in Bar Harbor. (55:39)

watch video The future of personalized medicine (8:07)

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