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 metabolization. as suggested here , a blog written...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 01-02-2009
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Not too many years ago I remembered hearing the term “hospitalist” and asked what’s that? The hospitalist has evolved and is now one of the top growing professions. With Pharmacogenomics, we might be on the verge of a new specialty, a “Longevity Doctor”. We already have a dwindling...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-20-2008
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When will it start paying the bills? The science and development is somewhat fragmented like the rest of health care, and this is not to say in any way that phenomenal breakthroughs are not occurring by any means as they are. Part of the problem is having enough data, real time data for one...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-03-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, Science, Pharmacogenomics