If you have Native
American Ancestors, this new procedure may help you to avoid a dangerous drug
reaction.
The University of
Florida had started a new program that will check your DNA before allowing you
to take a certain drug.
Sounds like a movie
script, nope its true!
Plavix, or Clopidogrel,
which is often given to heart patients for clotting, can cause a dangerous,
even life threatening, reaction in certain patients, so now anyone who is about
to have a cardiac catheterization procedure, will automatically also have this
genetic test, to be sure that they do not carry the gene that could cause the
reaction.
Results can usually be
returned in about 24 hours.
A grant given to
Stanford and UF allows them to work together in this cutting edge technology
that will in the future, hopefully prevent fatalities from drug reactions.
All of this began with
a 2010 warning by the FDA about complications with the drug for patients of a
particular genetic type.
They are calling this
program personalized medicine, I call it saving lives!
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