Items Tagged ‘Dr. Julie Johnson’
October 5, 2016
Individualized Medicine Conference 2016 – Day 1 Recap
By Sharon Rosen 
“In the early days of precision medicine research, it was about the promise of genomics. Now, it is a reality, and we need to focus on making genomics more available, more accessible and more valuable for our patients,” explains Keith Stuart, M.B., Ch.B. in his opening remarks at Individualizing Medicine 2016: Advancing Care Through Genomics, […]
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May 16, 2016
Improve Outcomes with Clinical Application of Pharmacogenomics
By Jeff Briggs
Your genes determine a lot about how you look. They also play a key role in how medications work in your body. We call that pharmacogenomics — the tailoring of drug treatments to an individual’s genetic makeup. Faithful readers of the Center for Individualized Medicine’s blog know that we have repeatedly come back to […]
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May 3, 2016
Improving Clinical Outcomes by Looking at Individual Response to Drug Therapies
By Jeff Briggs
Pharmacogenomics — prescribing medications based on a person’s genomic information — is one area of precision medicine that can offer an immediate impact on improving a patient’s care. People metabolize different drugs at different rates, some faster, some slower. On occasion, a specific drug may have devastating consequences to a patient. Pharmacogenomics, or PGx as we […]
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