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Report:

2008 Personalized Health Care Report  (pdf -11.53MB)

2007 Personalized Health Care Report  (pdf -868KB)

Press Releases:

November 14, 2008
HHS Issues HHS Issues Second Report on Personalized Health Care"
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2008pres/11/20081114a.html

April 1, 2007
Researchers Discover a Common Variation in a Gene Segment that Increases the Risk for Prostate Cancer
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/apr2007/nci-01b.htm

April 1, 2007
Fifth National DNA Day to Showcase Genomic Discoveries and Careers
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2007/nhgri-26.htm

Friday, March 23, 2007
HHS Secretary Leavitt Announces Steps Toward A Future of "Personalized Health Care"
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2007pres/20070323a.html

 

Speeches:

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt delivered remarks on Personalized Medicine Coalition
http://www.hhs.gov/news/speech/2007/sp20070919a.html

Friday, March 23, 2007
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt delivered remarks on Personalized Health Care: Delivering Value to Patients
http://www.hhs.gov/news/speech/2007/032307.html

Friday, March 23, 2007
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today outlined a course for achieving gene-based medical care combined with health information technology, which he called "Personalized Health Care."
http://www.hhs.gov/news/speech/2007/032207a.html

March 6, 2007
Dr. Elias Zerhouni addresses the House Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations, Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request http://www.nih.gov/about/director/budgetrequest/fy2008directorsbudgetrequest.htm

January 17, 2007
President Bush Participates in a Roundtable on Advances in Cancer Prevention :

October 28, 2006

Alex Azar, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, Remarks as Delivered to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology http://www.hhs.gov/agencies/speech/2006/061209.html

September 26, 2006
Secretary’s Remarks as Delivered at eHealth Initiative's Health Information Technology Summithttp://www.hhs.gov/news/speech/2006/092606.html

August 1, 2006
Secretary’s Remarks as Delivered on New Regulations to Facilitate Adoption of Health Information Technology http://www.hhs.gov/news/speech/2006/060801.html

 

Events:

Upcoming meeting March 26-27
12th Meeting of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society
http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/SACGHS/meetings/Mar2007/SACGHSMar2007premeeting.htm

March 12, 2007
The next Personalized Healthcare Workgroup meeting is being held on Monday, March 12, 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET (all day "hearing" format).
http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic/healthcare/phc_materials.html

 

News:

March 8, 2007
Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health Hearing on "H.R. 493, the "Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act"
http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-hr_hrg.030807.HR_493_GINA.shtml

March 6, 2007
Dr. Elias Zerhouni addresses the House Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations, Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Request http://www.nih.gov/about/director/budgetrequest/fy2008directorsbudgetrequest.htm

 

Related News:

April 2, 2007
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) study identifies genes that might help some people abstain from smoking.  Findings Move Science Closer to Targeted, Improved Therapies. 
http://www.nida.nih.gov/