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Tylenol. Don Rickles flavor, please.
Personalised medicines, or pharmacogenetics, refers to treating the same disease differently in particular groups of people.It also encompasses the identification of genes that make drugs effective or harmful and assessing how people can differ in susceptibility to infectious diseases, so that new medicines or vaccines can be developed.
At the moment, personalised medicines are being investigated for the treatment of some cancers and the use of a genetic test with a drug so it is only given to patients with the right genes for it to be effective.
