California's Precision Medicine Initiative Targets Hard-To-Diagnose Diseases

In a California Healthline report by Alison Budner, experts discussed the state’s effort to implement a $3 million precision medicine initiative and help develop genomic testing to treat hard-to-diagnose illnesses. Traditional diagnosis of some relatively common conditions — such as pneumonia, sepsis and encephalitis — can miss the root causes of those conditions. That’s where DNA diagnostic testing can step in, to sequence an individual’s DNA to find answers.

The report includes comments from:

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D);
Esteban Burchard, researcher at UC-San Francisco;
Atul Butte, UCSF researcher;
Charles Chiu, UCSF infectious disease specialist; and
Julie Osborn, mother of a patient in Wisconsin who benefitted from precision medicine techniques (Budner, California Healthline, 08/12/15).

You can download a PDF of this report.

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<h1>California’s Precision Medicine Initiative Targets Hard-To-Diagnose Diseases</h1>
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			August 12, 2015		</time>
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<p>In a <em>California Healthline</em> report by Alison Budner, experts discussed the state’s effort to implement a $3 million precision medicine initiative and help develop genomic testing to treat hard-to-diagnose illnesses. Traditional diagnosis of some relatively common conditions — such as pneumonia, sepsis and encephalitis — can miss the root causes of those conditions. That’s where DNA diagnostic testing can step in, to sequence an individual’s DNA to find answers.</p><p>The report includes comments from:</p><ul><li>California Gov. Jerry Brown (D);</li><li>Esteban Burchard, researcher at UC-San Francisco;</li><li>Atul Butte, UCSF researcher;</li><li>Charles Chiu, UCSF infectious disease specialist; and</li><li>Julie Osborn, mother of a patient in Wisconsin who benefitted from precision medicine techniques (Budner, <em>California Healthline</em>, 08/12/15).</li></ul><p>You can <a href="https://californiahealthline.org/legacy/A70ADDEF-45F1-49C6-B218-9840C51C2EA6">download a PDF</a> of this report.</p><ul><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/californias-precision-medicine-initiative-targets-hardtodiagnose-diseases/?share=facebook">				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/californias-precision-medicine-initiative-targets-hardtodiagnose-diseases/?share=linkedin">				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/californias-precision-medicine-initiative-targets-hardtodiagnose-diseases/?share=x">				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20California%27s%20Precision%20Medicine%20Initiative%20Targets%20Hard-To-Diagnose%20Diseases&body=https%3A%2F%2Fcaliforniahealthline.org%2Fnews%2Fcalifornias-precision-medicine-initiative-targets-hardtodiagnose-diseases%2F&share=email">				Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/californias-precision-medicine-initiative-targets-hardtodiagnose-diseases/#print?share=print">				Click to print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li><li>				<a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/californias-precision-medicine-initiative-targets-hardtodiagnose-diseases/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p>

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