CSPAN2 NIH Officials Testify On FY 2018 Budget Request June 24, 2017
The overall goal, as you point out is to deliver the right medication to the right patient at the right time and not to over treat people because we know that overtreatment can sometimes actually have serious side effects. Recently, for example within the i supported research it was reported that giving people with Colorectal Cancer less treatment they actually did better than people with more treatment, an important part of the Precision Medicine initiative which, thanks to your committee and congress has been strongly supported, we have been conducting research that is trying to understand b...