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FDA Gives Plavix New Box Warning Relating to Metabolization in the Body – Step One Toward Personalized Medicine

As mentioned in prior posts, is Plavix a good candidate for personalized medicine, since it is a blood thinner. Right now with the new warning, it is basically telling you that it might not work for you so with a test perhaps the guess work someday...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 7:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Physician, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Health IT, Cardiology, Biotech, FDA, Information Overload, Pharmacogenomics, Sequencing, FDA warnings, Plavix

NIH – Clinical Trials for Genetic Tests To Help Optimize Doses of Blood-Thinning Drug Warfarin

It sounds like it’s going to take the NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) clinical trial to get someone to pay for the genetic test for dosing warfarin. It begins in April of this year for 1200 participants. We want the...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2009 2:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Physician, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Health IT, Cardiology, Biotech, FDA, warfarin, Pharmacogenomics, Sequencing, FDA warnings

FDA To look at benefits of Plavix in certain patients

As posted a couple weeks ago, perhaps Plavix might be next on the list for a personalized medicine review as it is said to metabolize differently in some individuals than others? BD From a prior post: Plavix – What’s the next step for doctors...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2009 4:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Physician, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Health IT, Cardiology, Biotech, FDA, Information Overload, Pharmacogenomics, Sequencing, FDA warnings, Plavix

Genetic warfarin test not cost-effective in guiding initial dosing of common blood thinner

We want personalized medicine to move forward, but now we are back to the same question, who’s going to pay for the Warfarin Test? As just the opposite is occurring in the UK from a prior post. They want folks to have the test. London has...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2009 9:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Physician, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Health IT, Cardiology, Biotech, FDA, warfarin, Pharmacogenomics, Sequencing, FDA warnings

Plavix – What’s the next step for doctors and patients – possible genetic testing in the near future?

Will Plavix be the next drug up for a genetic test? There are not many alternative drugs either that could easily replace the functionality of Plavix, it is a blood thinner. One idea would be to monitor patients with poor liver or kidney...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 2:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Physician, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Health IT, Cardiology, Biotech, FDA, Information Overload, Pharmacogenomics, Sequencing, FDA warnings, Plavix

Interpreting the Genome - understanding all the data

This is a very good point, getting all the data organized into a fashion where it can be used and analyzed. Back a few months ago when I interviewed Patrice Milos, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, of Helicos BioSciences I asked the same...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 5:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, Biotech, Pharmacogenomics, Helicos, Sequencing

Personalized medicine will rely on IT – It’s all about Software

Let’s put it another way, it can’t exist without IT. Again it all comes back to running algorithms to obtain desired results. As I have mentioned before, Algorithms is one of the hottest words right now in healthcare as we all make decisions...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 10:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Biotech, Pharmacogenomics, Helicos, Sequencing

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