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Medco-FDA PGx Alliance Aims to Improve Rx Efficacy, Safety, Consider Label Updates

Aug 20, 2008
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The US Food and Drug Administration this week said it plans to use patient databases held by pharmacy-benefit manager Medco to help it assess the pharmacogenomic safety and efficacy of currently marketed and investigational drugs, and to determine which drug labels should be updated to include genetic risk information.
 

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