What’s Being Said

While poll after poll shows that Canadians put health at the top of their priority list, they haven’t made political leadership on health an electoral imperative at the federal level.

Among the most revolutionary changes to how health care services are delivered to patients is personalized medicine, where diagnostic testing provides genetic, molecular and cellular information that guides medical decisions tailored to the individual patient. Knowing your genetic make-up helps determine which medications are likely to be most effective, and that can save patients and the health system considerable time and trouble.