Testing can predict if drugs will work, fail or become deadly, depending on differences in our make-up.
We have the technology to start a new era in medicine by precisely matching drugs to people's genetic code, a major report says.
It would have helped Jane Burns, from Liverpool, who lost two-thirds of her skin when she reacted badly to a new epilepsy drug. More than five million people in the UK get no pain relief from codeine. Their genetic code does not contain the instructions for making the enzyme that breaks codeine down into morphine and without it, the drug's a dud.
Scientists have looked at the 100 most prescribed drugs in the UK. Their report says we already have the technology to roll out genetic testing to guide the use of 40 of them.
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