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Feds Pay Doctors $161M to Design Drugs Just for You

By Katie DrummondSep 9th 2010 – 12:03PM

(Sept. 9) -- The use of genomic sequencing to create personalized medical prescriptions, a process that's already making rapid strides, got a financial boost this week. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will invest $161.3 million over five years in its Pharmacogenetics Research Network (PGRN). The decade-old...

Background on personalized medicine

Personalized medicine is a medical model that proposes the customization of healthcare, with all decisions and practices being tailored to the individual patient by use of genetic or other information.

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