Posted by yxibow on January 8, 2006, at 1:18:30
In reply to Re: AP's, posted by Dinah on January 7, 2006, at 10:19:25
> Wouldn't it be good to try to figure out why some people respond so d*mn well to AP's (or Prozac or Wellbutrin or Effexor) while other people respond so poorly? So if you took the people who responded best and worst to these classes of drugs and studied what was different about them, mightn't it lessen the hit and miss prescription of drugs?Very.. this is what we may see in the coming century, if, and I know this could be a controversial topic, we have more genetic research, including stem cell research. There are already tests around from what I understand from my psychiatrist who vaguely mentioned them, that can determine one's genetic disposition to the metabolism through the P450 cytochrome system, a very important factor in a lot of psychiatric drugs, and drug-drug interaction.
If we are allowed, by law, or by private funding, we could have tailored medicine by the second half of this century, despite setbacks such as the fabricated Korean cloning experiments -- we are still at the Wright Brothers' stage you could say -- there is so much more that modern medicine can and hopefully will given a good political climate start to fathom on the nanoscale of things.
Indeed an important thing and hope.
tidings.
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