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I just returned from vacation to find a great article in National Geographic about how genomics is - and will increasingly - affect the practice of medicine: Personalized Medicine Promises Tailor-Made Diagnoses, Treatments

Here’s a clip to encourage you to go check it out:

The genetic variations can be used to identify susceptibility to a particular disease and to pinpoint targets for drug treatments.

Currently drug courses are often ineffective. Physicians may have to prescribe several different treatments before identifying one that works.

“Personalized medicine is about changing the medical paradigm,” said Edward Abrahams, executive director of the Personalized Medicine Coalition in Washington, D.C. “It promises to replace trial-and-error medicine with a more targeted get-it-right-the-first-time approach.”

More about personalized medicine:

• My previous posts
• Research news, courtesy of the Personalized Medicine Coalition

Technorati Tags: personalized medicine, pgx, pharmacogenetics

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