Keyword: pharmacogenetics

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Options to optimize mental-health treatments

While medications to treat mental illness are a major source of drug spending, that money may be going to waste if patients don’t take their drugs as prescribed. Presenting at the recent Mental Health Summit Vancouver, Allison Nourse, national director of pharmacy innovation at Pharmasave Drugs Ltd., explored the ways community pharmacists can optimize medications […]

  • By: Sonya Felix
  • December 20, 2017 September 13, 2019
  • 16:00
Panel considers value of pharmacogenetic testing, fintech for benefits plans

As innovations in science and technology disrupt the status quo, developments such as pharmacogenetic testing in group benefits plans and robo-advisors in the pension industry are offering new options for plan members, a panel of experts said at an event on Wednesday. The acceptance of pharmacogenetic testing is growing as 88 per cent of doctors believe it will be the […]

  • By: Ryan Murphy
  • November 24, 2017 September 13, 2019
  • 08:30