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Tailor-made Medicine: A step towards future of Diagnostics and Therapeutics

 

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PharmaTutor (November- 2015)

 

Print-ISSN: 2394 - 6679
e-ISSN: 2347 - 7881
(Volume 3, Issue 11)

 

Received On: 09/07/2015; Accepted On: 16/07/2015; Published On: 01/11/2015

 

AUTHOR:
Vivek P. Chavda

Department of Pharmaceutics,
B.K. Mody Government Pharmacy College,
Gujarat technological university, Rajkot, Gujarat, India
vivek7chavda@gmail.com

 

ABSTRACT: The goal of tailor-made medicine is to maximize the likelihood of therapeutic efficacy and to minimize the risk of drug toxicity for an individual patient. It involves right drug & dose, right patient and at right time administration of a medication. By averting the knowledge of gene sequence and their functions, biomedical research are diversified towards inter-individual variations that are expected to become an eminent part of treatment planning in terms of efficacy and toxic side effects of drugs. Tailor-made medicine focuses on individualized drug treatment according to each patient’s molecular diagnosis and genetic makeup. Genomic-based diagnostics can play a key role in creating a more efficient healthcare system by directing patients toward beneficial therapies and away from therapies that pose substantial risk or are unlikely to improve outcomes for the patient.

 

How to cite this article: Chavda VP; Tailor-made Medicine: A step towards future of Diagnostics and Therapeutics; PharmaTutor; 2015; 3(11); 25-28

 

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