2.2 Million Americans suffered from adverse drug reactions last year. Over 100,000 died!!! The worst part is a huge portion of all that is completely preventable through PGX / DNA testing. Leading companies in the field of pharmacogenomics like MedXPrime are saving lives every day! Here is some more information on ADRs or Adverse Drug Reactions and read through some of this to find out how you can cash in on this window in history before these procedures become standard issue!

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Pharmacogenomics is part of a wider feild called Pharmacovigilance (PV or PhV), also known as Drug Safety, is the pharmacological science relating to the collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effectswith pharmaceutical products.^[1] The etymological roots for the word “pharmacovigilance” are: pharmakon (Greek for drug) and vigilare (Latin for to keep watch). As such, pharmacovigilance heavily focuses on adverse drug reactions, or ADRs, which are defined as any response to a drug which is noxious and unintended, including lack of efficacy. (The condition, that this definition only applies with the doses normally used for the prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy of disease, or for the modification of physiological disorder function was excluded with the latest amendment of the applicable legislation.) Medication errors such as overdose, and misuse and abuse of a drug as well as drug exposure during pregnancy and breastfeeding, are also of interest (even without adverse event itself), because they may result in an ADR.^[2]

What is Pharmacogenomics?

We’ve amassed a wealth of information towards the bottom of this page and here is a definition from one of the leading institutions on the top, the Mayo Clinic:

PHARMACOGENOMICS PROGRAM
Getting you the right drug at the right dose at the right time is the goal of pharmacogenomics, which involves studying how your specific DNA sequence influences your response to medications.

The drugs available today to treat cancer, heart disease and other conditions are powerful agents that work as intended in most patients. Yet, in some people, a particular drug at the standard dose might not work well enough or may even trigger a serious adverse reaction. The reasons for this lie in your genes.

By using your unique genetic makeup as a factor when prescribing a drug for you, your doctor can maximize treatment effectiveness while avoiding potentially life-threatening side effects.

Pharmacogenomics can help us answer a broad range of questions, such as:

Why does standard chemotherapy eradicate breast cancer in some women but work less effectively in other women?
Can we find new treatment options for men with advanced prostate cancer that has resisted all previous therapies?
What is the right blood thinner drug for patients who get a stent for their coronary artery disease?
How can we get rules into the pharmacy systems that take into consideration the patient’s genome for each prescription?

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