News tagged with pharmacogenomics journal
New research could advance research field critical to personalized medicine
It's the ultimate goal in the treatment of cancer: tailoring a person's therapy based on his or her genetic makeup. While a lofty goal, scientists are steadily moving forward, rapidly exploiting new technologies. Researchers ...
Dec 29, 2009 |
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Genetic trait could triple odds of whites' susceptibility to heavy cocaine abuse
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nearly one in five whites could carry a genetic variant that substantially increases their odds of being susceptible to severe cocaine abuse, according to new research.
Dec 21, 2010 |
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An X-ray for your genes
Prescription drugs and their dosages may be standardized, but not every patient reacts to a medicine in the same way. The personal genetic characteristics of individuals and populations can explain why a specific prescription ...
Oct 07, 2010 |
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Informatics = essential MD competency
In an article published in the Sept. 15 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, (JAMA), author Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, points out that although information underlies all clinical work, and despite t ...
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Tiny mutation might help indicate proper dosage for half of all drugs
A tiny gene mutation in human liver cells could one day influence how high or low a dose patients need of about half of the clinically used drugs on the market, new research suggests.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 10, 2010 |
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Chromosomes make a rapid retreat from nuclear territories
Chromosomes move faster than we first thought. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, Genome Biology, details new findings about the way chromosomes move around the nucleus when leaving the proliferative stage ...
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation
Previous studies have shown a link between low vitamin D status and heart disease. Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin ...
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Genetic variation associated with poorer response, cardiovascular outcomes with use of clopidogrel
Patients with a certain genetic variation who received the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel had a decreased platelet response to treatment and among those who had percutaneous coronary intervention (procedures such as balloon ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Wet ear wax and unpleasant body odors signal breast cancer risk
If having malodorous armpits (called osmidrosis) and goopy earwax isn't bad enough, a discovery by Japanese scientists may add a more serious problem for women facing these cosmetic calamities. That's because they've found ...
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Genetic tests may improve dosing of widely used anti-clotting drug
Doctors can use a patient's genetic information to more accurately prescribe doses of a commonly used blood-thinning drug whose potency and side effects vary greatly from one person to the next, reports an international team ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Effects of anesthesia on the heart
Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have created the first animal model that can reveal the side effects of anesthetic agents (the substances used to block pain during surgery) in individuals genetically predisposed to sudden ...
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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