Pharmacogenomics

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• Medco to Include Genetics in Comparison of Anti-Clotting Drug Effectiveness

  
  The Spittoon — Authority: 504
  Medco Health Solutions, Inc. , announced this week that it will conduct a clinical trial to assess whether clopidogrel bisulfate (Plavix®, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-aventis) is just as effective as the newer drug prasugrel (Effient™, Eli Lilly and Company) in people who lack a genetic variation that inhibits ...
  1 week ago

• Wellness Programs Get Thrown a Left Hook From GINA – No Family Medical History Allowed on a Health Risk Assessment

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  As I can interpret here, it appears that GINA will not allow any family history information to be collected by a Wellness Program, incentive or no incentive as it violates the provision of the law.  Also as it explains below, the use of a Health Risk Assessment cannot be used if family medical information is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Designing Drugs and Their Antidotes Together To Improve Care – Aptamer Technology

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  RNA-based aptamer technology is a new approach to make safer drugs, and allows for the creation of the drug along with the antidote at the same time.  In this article, blood thinning agents are used as an example.  Blood thinning agents are one of the most difficult classes of drugs to coordinate and dose.  An ...
  5 weeks ago

• HHS Attempts Clarifications on GINA – Time to Further Confuse This Issue Too With Insurance Access?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  The fines for doing so could easily be upgraded as for a $500.00 fine, their algorithms ran for risk management could calculate out to pay the fine and get the information needed.  The fine can also go up as high as $50,000 too.  But there are exceptions on the rule for example: “For example, an insurer ...
  5 weeks ago

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