Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.