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Personalized prescription

CVS, Medco at vanguard of effort to match patients, drugs by genetic tests

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By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Globe Staff / January 25, 2010

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For years, hype has built around personalized medicine - a tantalizing future in which insights gleaned from genetic tests will result in individualized treatment, guiding the drugs people take and at what doses. (Full article: 1108 words)

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