Personalised Medicine Is Real in a Few Places
Treatment tailored to individual biology works well in oncology and pharmacogenomics. Elsewhere it remains mostly aspiration.
Tag: medicine
10 posts
The Antibiotic Pipeline Is Broken for Economic Reasons
Resistance grows while development stalls. The obstacle is not scientific difficulty but that new antibiotics are bad businesses.
Gene Editing Therapies Are Reaching Patients
The first approved treatments have moved from trial to clinic. What they treat, and why the list is short.
Longevity Research: What Is Real and What Is Marketing
Enormous money is flowing into extending healthy lifespan. Some of the science is solid. Most of the products are not.
AI in Diagnosis: Where It Genuinely Helps
Image-based diagnosis has real results. The pattern of where AI succeeds and where it fails is consistent across specialties.
Nobody Fully Knows How General Anaesthesia Works
Used millions of times a year with excellent safety. The mechanism remains genuinely unresolved.
The Weight-Loss Drugs Changed More Than Waistlines
A class of drugs originally for diabetes reshaped obesity treatment and several industries around it.
Hundreds of Millions Live With Conditions That Began as an Infection
Post-infection illness is far more common than the attention it receives, and research into why some people do not recover is finally scaling up.
When Antibiotics Help and When They Do Not
Taken for the wrong thing they do nothing, cause side effects, and contribute to a serious long-term problem.
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Real Patients, Modest Claims
Implanted interfaces are restoring function to people who had lost it. That is remarkable, and it is not what the coverage emphasises.