President Obama on Friday will announce a major biomedical research initiative, including plans to collect genetic data on one million Americans so that scientists can develop drugs and treatments tailored to individual patients’ specific characteristics, administration officials said. ...NYT
Actually that's pretty cool and should have begun years ago. There's something woo-woo mystical about western medicine that depends on the wisdom of some white-coated person who, thanks to insurance guidelines, spends four and a half minutes looking at a computer screen and forty-five seconds writing a scrip that will help cure Merck of its slight downturn in the Dow.
Federal officials described the project as a research consortium that would collect information from large numbers of people. The data could include medical records, laboratory test results, profiles of patients’ genes, and information about their diet, tobacco use, lifestyle and environment. ...NYT
