title: [Progress in precision medicine: a scientific perspective].
abstract: Precision medicine is a new strategy for disease prevention and treatment by taking into account differences in genetics, environment and lifestyles among individuals and making precise diseases classification and diagnosis, which can provide patients with personalized, targeted prevention and treatment. Large-scale population cohort studies are fundamental for precision medicine research, and could produce best evidence for precision medicine practices. Current criticisms on precision medicine mainly focus on the very small proportion of benefited patients, the neglect of social determinants for health, and the possible waste of limited medical resources. In spite of this, precision medicine is still a most hopeful research area, and would become a health care practice model in the future.
authors.affiliation: Health Science Popularization Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005544:Forecasting; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000639:trends
keywords: Genomics; Personalized medicine; Precision medicine; Precision prevention