Why Pharmacogenomics Is Important?
Pharmacogenomics Can Improve Your Health by Helping You Know Ahead of Time Whether a Drug Is Likely to Benefit You and Be Safe for You to Take. Knowing This...
Pharmacogenomics can improve your health by helping you know ahead of time whether a drug is likely to benefit you and be safe for you to take. Knowing this information can help your doctor find medicine that will work best for you.
What are the benefits of pharmacogenomics?
- More powerful medicines. ...
- Better, safer drugs the first time. ...
- More accurate methods of determining appropriate drug dosages. ...
- Advanced screening for disease. ...
- Better vaccines. ...
- Improvements in the drug discovery and approval process. ...
- Decrease in the overall cost of health care.
How is pharmacogenomics used today?
One current use of pharmacogenomics involves people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Before prescribing the antiviral drug abacavir (Ziagen), doctors now routinely test HIV-infected patients for a genetic variant that makes them more likely to have a bad reaction to the drug.
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