Business First of Columbus
by Carrie Ghose

Ohio State University Medical Center plans to join a coalition for research and clinical application of personalized medicine, a growing movement that aims to replace buckshot treatments with pinpoint aim.

Nicole Brodeur
Seattle Times staff columnist

Sometime in the next 10 years or so, we'll each be seen as a walking, breathing collection of so-called "data points."

Clinicians will be able to use that data to detect our risk for disease — Alzheimer's, cancer — then set out a plan to prevent it.

It sounds like X-ray glasses. With scrubs.

But to Leroy Hood, it's something he calls P4 medicine: predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory. And he is the pioneer behind it.