What are the benefits of pharmacogenomics?
Though current uses are limited, pharmacogenomics has the potential to offer many benefits. Some of the potential benefits include: Making better medication choices. Each year, some 100,000 Americans die from adverse reactions to medications and more than 2 million are hospitalized. Medications generally undergo a rigorous review and testing process before being approved for sale. But there’s still often no way to predict how a certain individual will react to a drug. So even if a medication appears safe for most people, some people may have a toxic reaction to it because of variations in their genes. Pharmacogenomics may be able to predict the people likely to have a bad reaction to a drug before they ever take it. It may also be able to predict if you’ll respond well to a medication — whether your breast tumor will shrink, for example. Safer dosing options. As it stands now, the dosage of a medication either is a standard one-size-fits-all dose or is based on factors such as your wei
