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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on 01-02-2009
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
We all recently heard about the warning letters sent from the state of California to firms selling online personal DNA sequencing over the Internet, and requiring a physician’s prescription for the service. One company DeCode, has taken the letter to heart and is revising their marketing plant...
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on 07-12-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, Sequence, Pharmacogenomics, Diagnostics, CPT, DeCode
If you have not read up yet on personalized medicine this is a great article that will go through the basics in layman's terms...there are 4 links below to each section...and the last area is the toughest...the challenges as it will all be work in progress for quite a while to come...so somebody...
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on 05-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Labs, personalized medicine, Medicine, DNA, Biotech, healthcare providers, Advocates