One In A Billion : A Boy's life, a medical mystery
(http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/111224104.html)
Nicholas Volker is a little boy with a rare, devastating disease. In a
desperate bid to save his life, Wisconsin doctors must decide: Is it time to
push medicine's frontier?
•Treating
each patient as if they are the “average human” is often not effective
•Must
combine phenotype and genotype in the exam room
•Treating
each person based on their uniqueness is a truly big data analytics challenge
•New
tools are required for safe, high quality, cost effective, personalized
medicine
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