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What will medicine look like in 2055? Perhaps healthcare will have transitioned from a reactive model to one that is proactive, personalized and preventive. Advances in multi-omics — integrating genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics — may enable precise prediction of individual disease risks. Continuous monitoring of biomarkers through wearable and implantable biosensors could allow early intervention, long before signs and symptoms manifest.
The one-size-fits-all paradigm of medicine may be obsolete. Therapies in 2055 might be tailored to a person’s genetic profile, microbiome and real-time health data. Digital twins — virtual simulations of a person’s physiology — could guide chronic disease management, enabling clinicians to test interventions virtually before applying them in practice. A clearer understanding of how multiple related conditions impinge on somebody’s health will enable care to become more interdisciplinary and integral.
Perhaps affordability and infrastructure barriers will be overcome through decentralized care models. AI-powered portable diagnostic devices could bring advanced healthcare to underserved regions, while telemedicine platforms with real-time translation technologies might bridge geographical and linguistic divides."
I think in 30 years we will be able to prevent most of the hereditary diseases but they will not be accessible to all. I also think that medicine is going to be less and less affordable. But who knows maybe the market is going to crash or some revolution will happen to reset everything to factory settings. However, one thing will not change, in my opinion, for sure which is unquenchable greed of pharmaceutical companies. So even if we will discover a pill that can cure cancer, its patent will most probably be owned by big pharma corpo and they are only going to use this patent to prevent other smaller pharma companies from producing that drug because ultimately their main goal is not to cure a patient but give them addictive short pain relieve with side effects.
source:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03464-y