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Predictive Health: How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years Book

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Predictive Health: How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years, Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget—nearly $175 billion—is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futil, Predictive Health: How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years
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  • Predictive Health: How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years
  • Written by author Kenneth L. Brigham
  • Published by Basic Books, 10/2/2012
  • Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget—nearly $175 billion—is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futil
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Authors' Note xi

Part I The Challenge and the Opportunity

1 Ponce's Dream 3

2 Disease as a Medical Failure: A Transforming Paradigm 9

3 Toward Exemplary Health 17

Part II A Vortex of Discovery

4 Health in the Age of the Omics 29

5 Taming the Wild Genome 39

6 The Epigenome: Disparate Identities and Kinky Mouse Tails 49

7 Biomarkers and Biobanks 57

8 Zip Codes and Genetic Codes 69

9 Cyberhealth/Technohealth: Realities, Fantasies, and Myths 77

10 Truth and Consequences 89

11 Resonance: Research=Health Care=Research=Health Care... 99

Part III Health vis-à-vis Disease: Moving the Target

12 The Devils we Know 109

13 Evidence-Based Health 119

14 Good Drugs: Making Health Pills 129

15 Disrupting Medical Care: Realizing Predictive Health 137

Part IV The Broader View

16 The Tyranny of Paradigm 159

17 Healthy People-Healthy Planet 173

18 Toward a Square Wave Life 183

Epilogue: Life is a Fatal Condition 189

Notes 197

Additional Reading 217

Index 225


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