The future of preventive medicine may depend on the continued health of Leroy Hood¡¯s brain.
In a decades-long career, he¡¯s achieved momentous strides in decoding the molecular-level workings of the human body and revealing possible early indicators of disease. The goal, he told me, is to diagnose chronic diseases early ¡ª before people develop symptoms. ¡°Suppose you didn¡¯t have to get cancer or diabetes or you didn¡¯t have to get heart disease,¡± he said.
His goal looks a lot like the promise Elizabeth Holmes made about predicting and preventing disease. She never got anywhere near those big claims before her company collapsed and she was convicted of fraud.
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