January 30, 2022 – This was retrospectively seen information just in time for the holiday season. A new study in Scientific Reports on December 13 2021 comforts people who like to eat lots of black chocolate and to drink their coffee black …

What do genes tell about black coffee and chocolate? Read more »

March 25, 2020 – The Covid-19 pandemic keeps the word abreast. Drastic measures have been and are being taken worldwide by governments, hospitals, healthcare  care providers, and retiring homes in attempts to halt the spreading of Covid-19 disease. Recently, there have …

Covid-19 disease: Be careful with chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine Read more »

July 26, 2019 – “Blockchains for secure digitized medicine”. This is the title of a very interesting and important article in the Journal of Personalised Medine (JPM) as of May 28, 2019. Blockchain as an emerging technology (particularly around the hype …

The phenotype broker: Blockchain and patient phenotype Read more »

March 17, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added a Boxed Warning to the label for Clopidogrel [Plavix], the anti-blood clotting medication. The Boxed Warning is about patients who do not effectively metabolize the drug (i.e. …

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Reduced effectiveness of Clopidogrel [Plavix] in patients who are poor metabolizers (i.e. carriers of selected CYP2C19 allelic variants) of the drug Read more »

January 16, 2010 – This contribution has just been published in the ScienceBlog – Pharmacogenetics at this locoation. It is presented here in its original state and with all credentials and rights resting with the original author. Scientists at St. …

Inherited risk factors increase odds of developing childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) Read more »

November 17, 2009 – Today, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed on new data showing that the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) Omeprazole [Prilosec] or [Prilosec OTC] reduces the anti-blood clotting effect of Clopidogrel [Plavix] by almost half when …

Avoid Coadministration of Clopidogrel [Plavix] and Omeprazole [Prilosec] or Esomeprazole [Nexium] Read more »