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Medical Watch: Personalized medicine, work stomach and brain puberty

Personalized Medicine Before getting a certain prescription your doctor may take a DNA test to find out the dose exactly right for you. It's possible for blood thinners, which are taken by 2 million people each year to prevent blood clots after surgery. Warfarin or Coumadin is tough to dose, too much can cause a patient to bleed to death. Mayo Clinic researchers found a gene test can determine how quickly a person will metabolize the drug. In the study, the test reduced the chance for medication error by 30%.

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