Gina Kolata of The New York Times offers an in-depth look at how genetic testing may help guide the use of some drug treatments. Kolata details the beta blocker bucindolol and the breast-cancer drug tamoxifen as case studies for how genetic tests may be able to predict how patients will respond to a drug before they begin taking it.
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