Genetic Test Allows HealthCare Professionals to Learn What Medications Work Best for Each Patient

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Prescribing the correct pharmaceuticals to a patient can be a challenge for healthcare providers as each individual processes medications differently. Through the genetic test of Pharmacogenetic, or a PGx test, genetic factors can be identified and reveal a person’s ability to process certain medications, explains Phil Caplis, CEO of Complete Healthcare Managers:

“Maybe your body doesn’t process that pharmaceutical that the doctor has you on and you are a non-responder, what they would call, or a slow metabolizer of it; it’s not effective. Anybody that says that the doctor just keeps switching my meds or they are not responding, I would say it might be worth the Pharmacogenetics, also known as the PGx test. It is just a simple cheek swab. You do the cheek swab and we send it off and have the lab give us the results.”

According to the Food and Drug Administration, there are over 20,000 prescription drug products approved for marketing.

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