Swansea University Medical School launches new Genomic Medicine programme for NHS staff
(WorldNews Health)

Swansea University Medical School has launched a new Master`s degree to support NHS staff to understand and use the growing personalised medicine approach - which is changing the world of healthcare. What is personalised medicine? Personalised medicine is a revolution in identification, management and treatment of chronic disease and uses an `individual`s genetic profile to guide decisions made in regard to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease.` Reaching that goal has been more than 20 years in the making, birthed from an ambitious plan to sequence the first reference human genome. By 2003, scientists had done it for the first time - they had an essentially complete sequence...