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Finding a liability-free space in which personalized medicine can bloom.

Evans BJ

Health Law & Policy Institute and Center on Biotechnology & Law, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas, USA. bjevans@central.uh.edu

Personalized medicine uses genetic and other screening tests to predict a patient's response to specific drug and biologic therapies (together "drugs"), with the aim of choosing a treatment that will provide benefits while avoiding drug-related harms. There are two schools of thought on how tort liability may affect personalized medicine, i.e., whether fear of lawsuits will tend to accelerate progress or slow it down. Tort suits include product liability suits against manufacturers and negligence suits against physicians and other providers of health-related services.

Published 13 September 2007 in Clin Pharmacol Ther, 82(4): 461-5.
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