21st Century Medicine

21st Century Medicine (21CM) is a broad term that encompasses the advanced medical technologies, practices, and research developed and implemented in the 21st century. Pronounced as "twenty-first century medicine", the term is derived from the English words "21st", "century", and "medicine", indicating the medical practices of the current century.

Overview

21st Century Medicine incorporates a wide range of medical fields, including genomics, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence in healthcare, telemedicine, personalized medicine, and regenerative medicine. These fields have seen significant advancements in the 21st century, leading to improved patient care, diagnosis, and treatment.

Genomics

Genomics is the study of the entire set of genes in an organism (the genome). Advances in genomics in the 21st century have led to the development of genomic medicine, which uses an individual's genetic information to guide healthcare decisions.

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology in medicine, often referred to as nanomedicine, involves the use of nanoscale materials, such as biocompatible nanoparticles and nanorobots, for diagnosis, delivery, sensing or actuation purposes in a living organism.

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare is the use of complex algorithms and software to emulate human cognition in the analysis, interpretation, and comprehension of complicated medical and healthcare data.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technology to provide clinical health care from a distance. It has been used to overcome distance barriers and to improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities.

Personalized Medicine

Personalized medicine, also termed precision medicine, is a medical model that separates people into different groups—with medical decisions, practices, interventions and/or products being tailored to the individual patient based on their predicted response or risk of disease.

Regenerative Medicine

Regenerative medicine is a branch of translational research in tissue engineering and molecular biology which deals with the process of replacing, engineering or regenerating human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function.

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