When it comes to health care, everyone likes individual attention. With advances in medicine, personalized health care takes on a whole new meaning.
"It takes your personal genetic information and it combines it with knowledge of your environment -- with knowledge of your health behavior, of your culture -- your values, to, in fact determine what is best for you, to prevent the onset of disease or if you have a disease, what's best treatment." said Dr. Daniel Sedmak, The Ohio State University Medical Center's executive director for personalized medicine.
Sedmak said that researchers and doctors are already putting this to work for patients at The Ohio State University Medical Center. As soon as advances happen, doctors take them from bench to bedside.
"We create advances and we apply those advances to make sure our patient have the best," Sedmak said. "This will transform medicine in this century. There's no question about it."
Sedmak envisions the day where new parents will meet with doctors and genetic counselors to learn what future diseases their baby is predisposed to and how to stay healthy to avoid those problems.
