Obama spearheads personal medicine push
Evolving field involves a doctor, for example, prescribing a medication that targets a specific mutation in a patient's genes
Washington
PRESIDENT Barack Obama will seek hundreds of millions of dollars for a new initiative to develop medical treatments tailored to genetic and other characteristics of individual patients, administration officials say.
The proposal, mentioned briefly in his State of the Union address, will be described in greater detail in his budget in the coming weeks. The effort is likely to receive support from members of both parties, lawmakers said.
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