June 23, 2022 – Expansion of pharmacogenetics education agreed as part of lawsuit settlement. This has just been the headline objective of one of the latest blogs from the PharmGKB blogspot, an NIH-funded resource (database) that provides information about how …

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December 20, 2017 –  The American Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved  a novel gene therapy to treat patients with a rare form of inherited vision loss. Voretigene Neparvovec-Rzyl (Luxturna) is the first directly administered gene therapy approved to …

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  February 08, 2017 – Genetic predisposition may go in both ways, the positive and the negative. Usually, when we talk about genetic predisposition, there is an immediate association with some unwanted reactions of individuals towards drugs (e.g., abacavir-induced hypersensitivity …

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