cover the inherited
genetics of future offspring and therefore
be able to prepare both
socially and finically to
aid the living standards
of their children such
as the current development of medical
care surrounding
Down’s
syndrome in
infants. The
use of personalised
medicine
will provide a basic network of medical information for both doctors and patients to
access, which would
otherwise be difficult to
discover, and thus prevent or become aware
of potential future diseases in both offspring
and relatives.
Indeed, there are
many ethical issues
surrounding person8
alised medicine due
to the open depth of
information about each
patient. Reagan Kelly
is a PhD student at the
University of Michigan
, and he explores the
problems surrounding
personalised medicine
and if these will be
easy to overcome. He
states the three main
issues surrounding the
drawbacks of this new
scientific development
are protecting patient
privacy,
protecting