Personalised Medicine

‘Social prescribing’ is a growing area where health professionals connect patients to non-medical services and activities to benefit their wellbeing

A new online tool uses personalised risk to detect bowel cancers earlier and with greater precision

Adding Artificial Intelligence research to precision medicine is the future – but any collaboration between AI researchers and clinicians must include the human factor

Research untangles how mitochondria – our cellular powerhouses – respond to exercise, opening the pathway for personalising fitness to maximise health benefits

Cancer treatment is largely based on where it originates in the body, but when a primary site can’t be found, genomics is helping guide diagnosis and treatment for cancers of unknown origin

Scientists around the world have collaborated to create the most comprehensive map of whole cancer genomes to date, improving our fundamental understanding of cancer and how to treat it

In a new era of personalised medicine, technology can help doctors offer more tailored healthcare for diseases like type 2 diabetes

The reliance on colonoscopies for cancer diagnosis is unsustainable, and while exciting new and simpler techniques are coming, we need to better use our humble stool test

Gene editing is a form of ‘ultimate cure’: it treats disease at its very root. This edited extract from the new book, Genes for Life, explores the ethical implications of this rapidly evolving technology

Nearly 50,000 people will die from cancer in Australia this year. What does the future of treatment look like, and are funding and policy settings working for or against it?