01 Aug

World Experts Speak Up On Personalized Health and Medicine

It’s amazing how far we have come when it comes to health and medicine. From the blood-letting and lobotomies of the past, to the key-hole surgery and genetic testing of today – the field certainly has advanced by leaps and bounds. But there is always room for improvement and the next health trend expected to go is the one-size-fits-all approach. Personalized health, with recommendations based on each individual’s genes and environment, is the direction in which the health and medicine field is heading. Below, 16 experts tell us how they think this advancement is coming about.

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Personalized Health is emerging as a movement in health and medicine. A movement that can benefit the world by concentrating on the individual. This shift towards personalized health is possible because of increasing advancements in technology. You can read more about how one particular tech advancement – the internet – has the potential to transform healthcare here. The further that technology advances, the more the health and wellness field can take advantage of it, and therefore, the better off we all are.