The way patients are prescribed medicine could soon be a lot more precise. A new form of testing by UCSF could help determine how a patient's body will respond to specific medications and dosages.
Doctors experimented with different medications, but some of those had devastating effects on her body.
The adverse reactions had to do with the way her body metabolizes some medications, different from how another person's body may respond."Every individual is different from each other, and this individuality is makes us where we are," said Dr. Aleksandar Rajkovic, UCSF's Chief Genomic Officer, "It also makes us different in how we respond to medications."
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