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Precision Medicine in Action

UC San Francisco (UCSF)

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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.

9.6K views5 years ago

Evidence and public healthClinical medicineGenetics and genomicsDiagnosis and clinical reasoning

How precision medicine integrates vast data networks to improve disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for individuals and communities.

What does “Precision Medicine” mean in practical terms? How does it work in the real world? How does it address challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic? This video shows precision medicine as a dynamic process, which integrates vast amounts of data into a “knowledge network.” Using COVID-19 as an example, it demonstrates how precision medicine leads to better prevention, enhanced diagnoses, and more effective treatments for individual patients and communities. Find out more at: precisionmedicine.ucsf.edu

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UCSF is on Rounds' list of health institutions, and this upload is one of its most-watched lectures or explainers. Nobody has recommended it in the communities yet, so it ranks below community picks.