Pharmacogenomics

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• CVS Caremark Launching Collaborating with Generation Health To Launch Program to Predict Patient Response for a Dozen Drugs With Genetic Testing

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  This is the first announcement of this type I have seen.  Generation Health bills itself as a genetic benefit management company.  It seems interesting that GINA has just become effective with new provisions that prevent family history to be used as it relates back to potential discrimination in hereditary areas ...
  1 day ago

• DeCode Genetics Files for Bankruptcy in the US – Iceland Facility Likely to Go On Option Block

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  This is sad and in August of 2008 it looked like the company was on their way. Decode Nearly Doubles Revenues in Q2 - Personalized Medicine As the article states it was not all the economy that lead to the bankruptcy filing, but it certainly didn’t help.  The tests and research did not end up being ...
  4 days ago

• GINA Begins November 21st – Medical Histories And Financial Benefits Not Allowed

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  The provisions of the GINA law begins next week, right in the middle of open enrollment.  This interpretation was perhaps not meant to come through with the interpretation we have, but it is what it is now.  Medical history is now considered part of what could be analyzed and interpreted as GINA discrimination.  ...
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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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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