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sive, this will massively save on hospital expenditure and improve the economics of medical industry. The article also states that “the recently enforced regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) could obviate some contentious privacy battles, particularly those arising within immediate families, by requiring all patients to consent to disclosure of private health information and to authorise access to specific third parties”. This therefore reduces the amount of caution regarding privacy and dignity within personalised medicine, and this aids to ensure the treatment is both fair and continues to offer patient disclosure in medical practice. The article somewhat answers the concerns regarding personalised medicine in Regan Kelly’s work and thus enables scientists to focus more on developing the process of the personalised scheme and eventually put the ideas stated in the ethnic, legal and regulatory article into play. processes. In the absence of what is needed to know to deliver personalised medicine, physicians can easily continue to use a certain amount of trial-and-error methods when they evaluate treatment approaches ”. Along with the statistics from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) stating that more than 770,000 deaths or injuries a year are due to adverse reactions to treatments, this shows that the benefit of personalised medicine massively outweighs the issues highlighted previously. These deaths also cost up to 5.6 million per hospital per year, which shows that although trying to implement personalised medicine around the globe will be expen10