Genome Medicine


Musings

Musings on genome medicine: the slow but inexorable process of medical care reform in the United States

David G Nathan* and Stuart H Orkin

Author Affiliations

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA


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Genome Medicine 2009, 1:94 doi:10.1186/gm94

Published: 12 October 2009

Abstract

The current healthcare system in the United States is unsustainable, but any attempts at improvement must be carefully managed to avoid weakening the country's contribution to biomedical science research and the future of genome medicine.