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Personalised Medicine Fact Or FictionDavid WeatherallThe Chancellor, Professor Sir David Weatherall, this week gave the latest lecture in Keele's Public Sector Series of lectures for 2007/08. He spoke about genes and the future development of medicine and healthcare in a lecture titled "Personalised Medicine: Fact or Fantasy". Sir David, Regius Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Oxford University, said: "One prediction is that we will move to a time of personalised medicine when each of us will have our genome sequenced and we will then know our susceptibilities to various diseases, how to avoid them and, if we get them, precisely what dose of medicines our genes are telling us that we will require. In short, you will go to your GP with a headache; he will open up his computer and look at your genes, and tell you whether you are a one or two aspirin person. Is this really how life will be for your grandchildren or is it more suitable for a new edition of Brave New World?" The next lecture in the series will be delivered by Dame Mary Marsh, Director and Chief Executive of the NSPCC, who will be speaking on "Safeguarding Children is Everyone's Responsibility" in the Westminster Theatre on Monday, 10 March. |
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