Bring Your DNA to the Pharmacy
Healthy You Podcast
English - May 13, 2019 21:00 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHealth & Fitness Science awareness healthcare healthcare professionals doctors healthcare management health careers nurse life medical education clinicians healthcare reform Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode delves into how your DNA affects the medications you should take, a developing field known as Pharmacogenomics, where caregivers are assessing patients’ DNA to try to determine what drug is best for them.
The right drug, at the right dose, at the right time. That’s the goal of pharmacogenomics, which is designed to eliminate trial-and-error medicine, where some patients respond positively to a drug while others receive no benefit. Dr. Mark Dunnenberger, Director of Pharmacogenomics at NorthShore University HealthSystem’s Mark R. Neaman Center for Personalized Medicine, talks about exciting developments in this developing field.
People featured in this podcast:
Dr. Mark Dunnenberger
Find out more at http://www.northshore.org/healthy-you/.
Produced by Jon Hillenbrand and Andy Buchanan. Artwork by Romi Anderfuren. Mixed by Jon Hillenbrand.