16 March 2018 - It’s well known that different people can react differently to the same drug, with some patients feeling no effect – and some experiencing unwanted, even fatal, reactions. 

Now that reading patients’ DNA has become cheap and easy, pressure is mounting to make gene-guided prescriptions a regular part of publicly funded medicine.

The future arrived in North Bay on a rainy day last summer. There, on the shores of Lake Nipissing, the genomic age stepped into Richard Procunier’s drugstore.

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