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The Personalized Medicine Report: Opportunity, Challenges, and the Future

The Personalized Medicine Report: Opportunity, Challenges, and the Future demonstrates that personalized medicine can make patients healthier while lowering systemic costs. In addition to documenting a 62 percent increase since 2012 in the number of personalized medicines on the market, the report examines evidence in support of the field's most established benefits, which include:

1. Shifting the emphasis in medicine from reaction to prevention
2. Directing targeted therapy and reducing trial-and-error prescribing
3. Reducing adverse drug reactions
4. Revealing additional targeted uses for medicines and drug candidates
5. Increasing patient adherence to treatment
6. Reducing high-risk invasive testing procedures
7. Helping control the overall cost of health care