Obama Backs ‘Personalized’ Medicine

President-elect Barack Obama wants medical treatment to become more personal, the Associated Press (AP) says. This approach adapts care based on a person’s genes. For example, a medicine may not work well for everyone. Gene differences may be one reason. Obama believes more personal treatment should be part of health care reform, experts told AP. As a senator, he introduced a bill to have U.S. agencies work together on the issue. It also would support research with a data bank and tax credits. AP wrote about the issue November 28.