Tag: personalized medicine

One-Size-Fits-All Dangerous Drugs Must Give Way to Personalized Medicine

Although people have the legal right to say no to taking pharmaceutical drugs, caregivers of mentally ill patients can go to court to force them to take medication. Whether this is ethically warranted or not is the subject of a new investigation, available as a preprint, by two doctors: Gail Tasch, a psychiatrist based in…


Matching Treatments to Your Genes

You’re one of a kind. It’s not just your eyes, smile, and personality. Your health, risk for disease, and the ways you respond to medicines are also unique. Medicines that work well for some people may not help you at all. They might even cause problems. Wouldn’t it be nice if treatments and preventive care…