Category: Pharmacogenetics
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Empowering Health Professionals through Precision Medicine
We’re excited to share that Nalagenetics recently conducted a pharmacogenomics report training in collaboration with Biomedical and Genomic Science Initiatives (BGSi), BB Binomika, and the Digital Transformation Office of Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia.
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Farmakogenomik di Ujung Jari: Mengoptimalkan Pengobatan Lewat Aplikasi Mobile
Farmakogenomik Dan Kontribusinya Terhadap Dunia Kesehatan Bayangkan ada teknologi canggih yang bisa memprediksi risiko yang ada di dalam tubuh kita hanya dengan menganalisis DNA. Teknologi ini bukanlah impian masa depan—melainkan kenyataan yang sudah ada saat ini, berkat kemajuan dalam bidang farmakogenomik.
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NalaGenetics Shares Insights at PRECISE-IHCC Conference 2024
This discussion highlighted the importance of leveraging genetic testing to personalize medication, ultimately aiming for safer and more effective treatments for all.
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Living With A Mental Disorder: A Journey of A Mental Health Patient
Ibdati Malika, a schizoaffective bipolar II disorder patient, shares her story about her struggle, how she thrives with her condition, and what support means to her. How did you realize you might need medical help for your condition?I felt fine at the beginning. However, my friends often asked “Why do you easily get mad?”. In…
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What is Pharmacogenomics?
Research in the field of molecular biology and clinical medicine has since expanded in studying the variabilities of responses to drugs based on your unique gene sequences. This is referred to pharmacogenetics or in a broader context, pharmacogenomics. Recent findings have discovered that up to 95% of variability in treatment is due to genetic factors…
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Personalized Medicine in Psychiatric Therapy
The prospect of this new medicinal approach is to adopt a predictive method through determining individual susceptibility to diseases, finding accurate diagnostics, and most importantly to tailor therapeutics according to your genetic makeup. Currently, the majority of success stories in the utilization of personalized medicine are within oncology diagnostic and treatments. For example, a so…
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Codeine in Breast Feeding Mother and Baby (from a Pharmacogenomics Perspective)
Codeine is a narcotic analgesic most frequently used as cough relief and to treat moderate pain. Over the years, it has gained popularity when ache or pain persists even after treatment with paracetamol or NSAIDs. It has been marketed as a weak opioid and endorsed by governmental health organizations as an option to treat cancer…
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Raffles Medical Group and NalaGenetics Provide Pre-emptive Genetic Testing for Adverse Drug Reactions
Singapore, 3 October 2022 –Raffles Medical Group (RMG) is collaborating with biotech start-up NalaGenetics to offer pre-emptive pharmacogenomics testing at its hospital. It is the first hospital in Singapore to provide such a service. Pharmacogenomics is the study of how genes affect a person’s response to medication. Pre-emptive pharmacogenomics testing on a healthy person can…
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Statins: Are They Really The Most Reliable Cholesterol Fighters?
Statins: the lifesavers that help defeat cholesterol We might be familiar with statins – the medication commonly taken after a big meal of barbecued, fatty meats, though some are best taken at night before sleep – usually by middle-aged or elderly people with high levels of cholesterol. While your body needs cholesterol to build new…
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Pre-emptive genotype testing – what is it and why is it important?
Pharmacogenomics/pharmacogenetics: the basis of future healthcare Our body is made up of genes, which are essentially segments of DNA. There are thousands of genes that are inherited from our parents. These genes determine characteristics such as blood type, skin color, and even the way our body processes medications and foods. During recent years, scientists and…