Personalized Medicine Sparking Interest in Workers' Comp

A blood test developed by researchers in London appears to be able to predict whether a patient who is suffering from depression will respond to commonly prescribed antidepressants, according to research published this month. The blood test has the potential to save months of frustration for the sizable number of depressed patients who don’t gain relief from the standard treatments, according to the researchers at Kings College, who published their results in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. Their findings are among the most recent examples of “personalized m...