You’ve tried an antidepressant that didn’t work. Or a pain medication that barely touched the pain, or worse, caused a reaction nobody expected. That trial-and-error cycle has a name: pharmacogenomics (often shortened to PGx), the study of how your genes shape your response to a drug. For a growing list of medications, doctors don’t just […]
You’ve tried three different migraine medications, and none worked the way your neurologist promised. Your sister takes the same triptan and gets relief within an hour. That gap between two people with the same diagnosis often traces back to DNA. Migraine itself runs in families, and the genes you inherit also change how your body […]
Most people don’t feel better on their first psychiatric medication. STAR*D, the largest real-world antidepressant study on record, found that only about 37% of participants reached remission on their first medication trial, and many needed a second or third drug before symptoms eased. Genetic testing for psychiatric medications, also called pharmacogenetic or PGx testing, looks […]