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Personalized Medicine Is Coming to Addiction Treatment

Using gene testing to find the right drug for the right person at the right time is medicine's cutting edge. Addiction researchers are identifying promising genetic targets for treatments for alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs.

Jeanene Swanson

Social Justice

We Know What’s in Your Medicine Cabinet

Even our most personal health conditions are part of a vast but hidden market for our medical data. Don't we deserve to know about it?

Adam Tanner

Social Justice

Who’s Reading Your Medical Data?

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

Pacific Standard Staff

Economics

Sequenced in the U.S.A.: A Desperate Town Hands Over Its DNA

The new American economy in three tablespoons of blood, a Walmart gift card, and a former mill town's DNA.

Amanda Wilson

Social Justice

Making It Personal: Geneticist Michael Snyder Puts a Face on Personalized Medicine

The single participant in a groundbreaking—and controversial—study is forcing clinicians to confront the thorny ethical issues surrounding the sequencing of individual genomes to offer a glimpse at what the future of medicine may look like.

Kayt Sukel