DNA Will Point the Way to Healthier Patients

The FDA maintains a list of drugs with pharmacogenomic labeling information that can be searched on www.FDA.gov/drugs. If you've experienced significant side effects taking any of these medications or found them to be ineffective, consider asking your doctor about being tested.

The National Institutes of Health believes that the ability to customize patient treatments can be such a game-changer that last year it launched the All of Us Research Program to pull together data from 1 million or more participants nationwide, covering their lifestyle, environment and genetics, to accelerate research into personalized disease prevention and treatment. As research evolves, we can expect to see more recommendations based on your specific profile: the best strategies to treat your cancer, which drugs you should take or avoid, and which diseases you are most at risk to develop if you don't take care of yourself.