President Barack Obama made few references to health care during his State of the Union address, but one topic in the spotlight was what he referred to as “precision medicine,” a way of approaching diseases in a highly individualized way by using patient DNA to predict how one might respond to specific treatments. Scott Weiss, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
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