There are many social, economic, political or other problems unique to individual countries and then other such problems that you can expect to find in every nation. Every government grapples imperfectly, for example, with nailing down a picture-perfect healthcare system, and while some might get hyperbolic when aggrandizing the healthcare systems of certain European countries like France, Germany, the UK, Sweden, and especially Denmark, but there is no country whose healthcare system is devoid of cracks through which some unhealthy people can slip. Other countries with comparable systems like those of Australia and Canada are struggling as much as any other to figure out how best to improve. The improvements needed are what change from what …show more content…
As such, it should come as no surprise that personalized healthcare is one of many solutions to whole sets of healthcare industry problems that advocates in many countries embrace. In just about any of the aforementioned countries, including those with relatively excellent healthcare systems, you can find plenty of proponents of individualized medical care. So far, it’s really only an abstract concept for most countries, and many governments are studying its ramifications but also determining different ways to institute it in the …show more content…
In the first study, researchers found genetics ripe for personalized treatment specifically of age-related macular degeneration, which is the number-one cause of blindness internationally. Some 119 participants in the study were analyzed, collectively showing 40 distinct, genetic mutations that correlate with age-associated macular degeneration. The disease itself was found in 71 percent of the participants who possessed these mutations, but it was only 52 percent present in the control