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Researchers are asking if the precision medicine approach will reduce or eliminate the role that race plays in prescribing drugs and in health care overall.
… the complex interplay of ancestry, health, disease and drug response. … In a May 26 New England Journal of Medicine … prescribing drugs and in health care overall. "We focus on drug therapies because that's where the precision medicine … imprecise prescribing practices. This means including in drug studies people from diverse social, racial and ethnic, …
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A repurposed cancer drug appears to reduce the severity of lesions and pain experienced by people with Proteus syndrome
… Jeannine Mjoseth … A repurposed cancer drug appears to reduce the severity of lesions and pain … people with Proteus syndrome, a rare genomic disease. The drug, miransertib, was well tolerated, even in children, … are some initial, though unconfirmed, indications that the drug had a beneficial effect on symptoms of Proteus …
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SJS/TEN is a severe drug reactions that affect the skin, and one of the most severe of adverse reactions affecting any system in the body
… Necrolysis (SJS/TEN). SJS/TEN is the severest of adverse drug reactions that affect the skin, and one of the most … organized a workshop , in collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other NIH institutes, to … factors that predispose patients to severe immune mediated drug reactions like SJS/TEN, as well as studying the …
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Pharmacogenomics combines the science of how drugs work, called pharmacology, with the science of the human genome, called genomics.
… genetic makeup, or genome, to choose the drugs and drug doses that are likely to work best for that particular … genetic makeup, or genome, to choose the drugs and drug doses that are likely to work best for that particular … drugs have been developed with the idea that each drug works pretty much the same in everybody. But genomic …
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NIH researchers have identified a gene that makes yeast resistant to a lethal toxin.