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    Personalized Medicine Gets a Boost from the President

    At the White House today, President Obama said he’ll ask Congress for $215 million to recruit volunteers for a new approach to medical care. What is “personalized medicine"? What are the “opportunities for breakthroughs”?

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    By Warren Olney • Jan 30, 2015 • 1 min read

    At the White House today, President Obama said he’ll ask Congress for $215 million to recruit volunteers for a new approach to medical care. What is “personalized medicine"? What are the “opportunities for breakthroughs”?

    “Precision” or “personalized” medicine is possible because of reductions in the cost of sequencing the genome of an individual patient. Caroline Chen reports on healthcare for Bloomberg News.

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      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Caroline Chen

      Healthcare reporter, ProPublica

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