Why Indian doctors are recommending genome tests before prescriptions
When a 53-year-old industrialist from Gurugram walked into the cardiology outpatient department at a leading Pune hospital last month, his complaint was familiar: nine months of stubbornly elevated homocysteine, despite escalating doses of folic acid. What was unusual was the document he carried with him: a sixty-page genetic report that, his consulting cardiologist later said,…