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@everhopeful

I’ve never heard of a dna test to determine the right medication,

We’ve covered this in the past - check this news item:

New Genetic Test for Medication Suitability

I have no idea how valid and helpful this is - but it looks potentially interesting: MaRS EXCITE and Assurex Health collaborate to Genetic Testing for Medications-related suitabilty to Canadians suffering from depression and schizophrenia Assurex Canada helps healthcare providers tailor the right treatment to patients using a genetic test called GeneSight, which is displacing the current trial and error approach to prescribing medication for behavioral health conditions. GeneSight technology is based on combinatorial pharmacogenomics (CPGxTM), a proprietary informatics platform that integrates and weights the importance of multiple genes that affect an individual’s ability to tolerate and…