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by Mike May

RESEARCH

Pharmacogenomics Lurches Forward
Small battles push toward making personalized medicine a reality


The Scientist 2004, 18(15):26

Published 2 August 2004

Medicinal drugs save patients, but compounds fail in many cases and even cause death in others. According to the US Food & Drug Administration's Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, adverse drug reactions kill 100,000 Americans each year, registering as the fourth leading cause of death.[1] In the United States at least, prescribed drugs are more lethal than AIDS or automobile accidents. The problem is, no physician can know for certain how a patient will respond to a drug. Pharmacogenomics, however, could help alleviate that problem.


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