March 10, 2020 – A widespread assumption is, the people of Asian descent are more prone to serious, sometimes deadly adverse drug reactions, even when taking rather common medications prescribed for gout through to depression. In the ages of genetics …

Are Asians at higher genetic risk of serious adverse events to common medications? Read more »

September 18, 2019 – This post is an edited version of parts of a paper that appeared in the Journal of Personalised Medicine (JPM) a week ago und which addresses one of the important topics in connection with the themes of …

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November 08, 2018 –  The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just authorized the first direct-to-consumer test for detecting genetic variants in genes that may govern the metabolism of drugs in individual patients. Thus, FDA permits marketing, with special controls, the …

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