Bet the insurance companies & NSA are lickin' their chops for this one.

more waste and fraud, obama is a walking disaster.

smells like nazi stalingrad to me.

if Obozo said it it must be a great idea/ "Great idea" means "completely irresponsible and costly proposal that will be implemented with grotesque incompetence costing tax payer money so that any benefits can be given to disease infested illegals (Measles anybody) or JIhadists who come from a religion of peace that just happens to have murdered about 300,000,000 humans in 1000 years.

@davidbecker2: great reference! Thanks! http://journals.plos.org/pl...

I was actually referring to his october 2014 article , though both articles are similar. In any event, the research community is constantly scheming ways to spend money and is unwilling to examine their bias and shortcomings. So to me, precision medicine is just another beer commercial for researchers to keep making money without any requirement to lower the.prevalence of any disease or lower the costs. Doesn't it always come down to the money.

I coined the phrase "preventive molecular medicine (PM2)" in 1996. Biobanks aren't the answer. Genomics Collaborative's business model was to build one 15 yrs ago; it's out of business now, having contributed no new knowledge. Estonia has had a biobank for nearly 20 years. Iceland's hasn't solved much. The UK built one; now it's building a larger one. Having collected 20,000 samples myself at the VA in the 1990s, I know that DNA collections without a clever way to use them are a waste of time and money. But it gives the pediatric geneticists who've been running our national genomic effort (and the world's) something to do, while distracting us from the fact that they haven't solved a single disease in 30 years. Let genomic epidemiologists run the show, and you'll realize the promise of PM2.

I share your view on the issue. ioannidis in PloS Medicine in October pointed out 85 percent of medical research is wasteful.

Aldous Huxley was right wasn't he?

youtube........Aldous Huxley interview-1958 (FULL)

A Brave New World....... 'Order?"?

Its all about the profits of special interest groups who have yet to have a vision ør a plan to løwer the prevalence of diabetes, osteoarthritis, migraine,etc. Until govt calls for accountability in research more wasteful and very costly hifalutin will continue without real benefit to the public.

I think the Secretary of HHS should forfeit his/her job unless s/he can utilize the Dept, especially its research institutions like the NIH and CDC, to solve diseases. Right now the NIH functions like the NSF, no meaningful clinical research is done, and the entire budget, not just 85%, is wasted w/out anybody being held accountable. Our research budget is a sacred cow; nobody with any knowledge has ever criticized it, for fear of being blacklisted for life.

She is just a figurehead. The research community is too far removed from the public good and too full of themselves. Diamond's in Oct plos medicine indicated convention, inertia,nepotism allegiance bias dominate.medical research. Researchers don't wish to hear the concerns of people who are not researchers and they are unwilling to break their heads open to create the symbols of a new day for people with illness

The term 'precision medicine' was coined in the 2009 book 'The Innovator's Prescription' by Clay Christensen and colleagues, in which the lens of disruptive innovation is applied to medicine and health care.