Multiple Miscarriage, MTHFR and Pharmacogenomics: Our Story
… this raises a huge question… How many other drugs are we prescribing to patients, without understanding their genome, that not only won’t help them, but might cause harm? Pharmacogenomics (the study of how drugs interact with specific genomes) isn’t some nebulous idea that might become useful to medicine in 10+ years time. Clinicians desperately need to start taking account of patient’s genetics as they prescribe medications right now. How many adverse drugs events and hospital admissions could be averted by…
