During this final unit, I chose to explore how personalized or precision medicine will become part of our future health. I also continued my research into osteoarthritis to see what is being looked at for possible future treatments in the field, including the application of precision medicine.

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Unit 7 Resources

 

For a full list of references, please visit my Zotero public group here. Below is a selection of pertinent resources for this unit, accompanied by a brief description.

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The WHO issued a list of 13 global future health challenges for 2020-2030. Explore what they are and what the WHO is doing to address them:

Urgent health challenges for the next decade. (n.d.). Retrieved March 26, 2021, from https://www.who.int/news-room/photo-story/photo-story-detail/urgent-health-challenges-for-the-next-decade

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This article discusses the definition of personalized medicine and how there is no current standard definition being used in the medical literature:

Fournier, V., Prebet, T., Dormal, A., Brunel, M., Cremer, R., & Schiaratura, L. (2021). Definition of Personalized Medicine and Targeted Therapies: Does Medical Familiarity Matter? Journal of Personalized Medicine, 11(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11010026

 

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This article explores how precision medicine can be used to develop personalized weight loss and exercise programs for patients with osteoarthritis who are overweight or obese:

Jiang, X., Nelson, A. E., Cleveland, R. J., Beavers, D. P., Schwartz, T. A., Arbeeva, L., Alvarez, C., Callahan, L. F., Messier, S., Loeser, R., & Kosorok, M. R. (2020). A precision medicine approach to develop and internally validate optimal exercise and weight loss treatments for overweight and obese adults with knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis Care & Research. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24179

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Learn about how cartilage tissue engineering is being looked at as a potential future treatment for patients with osteoarthritis:

Sun, A. R., Udduttula, A., Li, J., Liu, Y., Ren, P.-G., & Zhang, P. (2021). Cartilage tissue engineering for obesity-induced osteoarthritis: Physiology, challenges, and future prospects. Journal of Orthopaedic Translation, 26, 3–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jot.2020.07.004

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Explore another future health trend for the treatment of osteoarthritis: digital self-management programs:

Dahlberg, L. E., Dell’Isola, A., Lohmander, L. S., & Nero, H. (2020). Improving osteoarthritis care by digital means - Effects of a digital self-management program after 24- or 48-weeks of treatment. PLOS ONE, 15(3), e0229783. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229783