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The role of personalized medicine

Medicare reimbursement policy helps physicians incorporate pharmacogenetics into practices. By Tom Johnson The use of genetic information to inform diagnosis and treatment is one of the fastest-growing areas of medicine. Understanding genetics is also the core of personalized medicine, making possible the development of treatments designed for the molecular make-up of specific, individual patients. Personalized medicine has implications for virtually all medical disciplines, with theoretical

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