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Medicine for Designer People - Video The impact of the genetic revolution
on health services
The genetic revolution will completely
redefine the meaning of health, transform disease management and
totally wipe out many diseases. It will also create huge resource
problems and urgent ethical dilemmas. The same tools to destroy
cancer and cure diabetes could also permanently alter the human
race. (Lecture outline by Dr Patrick Dixon - physician and
futurist).
How scientists will slow down or stop ageing in humans - Video
Comment by Dr Patrick Dixon on science of ageing, health care, life expectancy, medical advances, pensions, retirement, lifestyles and government policy.
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Selection of "intelligent"
or "athletic" IVF embryos
Demand will be driven by wealthy
well-informed consumers, making their own arrangements online for
the bio-enhancements they think they need. Health service
providers, insurers and governments will struggle to adapt last-century
care models.
Tomorrow's headlines will include:
Hundreds of genes
linked to diseases and personal profiles
Preventative medicine
becomes a precise risk-management science
Health messages
targeted exactly at those at risk
Accurate predictions
about individual response to medication
Claims that marker
genes help predict personality and intelligence
Gene therapy for
cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and other disorders
Stem cell repairs
for damaged heart, liver, brain, muscle, bone and
spine
Nanotechnology to
test or deliver - microbots - injectable bio-machines
New vaccines for
malaria, HIV, cervical cancer
Birth of "replacement"
clones of dead children
Campaigns against
commercial exploitation of human genes / patents
Concern about a
genetic underclass unable to get life or health insurance
More laws against
genetic discrimination in the workplace
Shifts from treatment
to prevention, and from prevention to life-enhancement
Growing reaction
against performance-related genetic refits at a time when 2/3rds
of the world lacks even basic health care
But human needs will remain unchanged:
to be loved, to be needed, to be cared for, to be comforted.
Compassionate, sensitive, professional, expert help will always
command the highest respect. Trusted professionals will be in even
greater demand in a rapidly changing and confusing world.
We need to combine all the best care values of the past with the
tools of the future, helping people live active and fulfilling lives.
Future of biotechnology, genetics, health care, pharmaceutical industry Dr Patrick Dixon lecture to biotech venture capital investors about future medicine and health care, gene therapy, biotechnology, and the pharmaceutical industry. Dr Dixon is a physician and trends analyst.
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Dr Patrick Dixon is a global
authority on the future,, a trained physician, a lecturer at business
schools and author of ten books
including Futurewise.
Video / Articles by Patrick Dixon - 24 million requests in year - 10 million visitors - Conference Speech/Event? 
