The future is precision medicine-guided diagnoses, preventions and treatments for neurodegenerative diseases

Precision medicine is essential for the effective prevention and treatment of diseases across diverse populations. Many progressive neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and glaucoma, involve dysfunction in multiple bodily systems. Nervous, endocrine, immune, cardiac and digestive functions can all contribute to disease progression and the factors that influence each of these systems throughout one's lifetime are exceptionally diverse. It is therefore imperative that we move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare and lean toward developing more accurate diagnostics and individualized treatment regimen, to better-approach an inclusive healthcare system.