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New research continues to support the integration of pharmacogenomics into clinical practice.
“Pharmacogenomics is the lowest hanging fruit in medicine today,” said Burns C. Blaxall, PhD,
senior author of a paper in JAPhA about implementing comprehensive pharmacogenomics in
a community hospital–associated primary care setting

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A new and alarming fungal pathogen, Candida auris (C. auris), is catalyzing a global crisis across
long-term care facilities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced C. auris
to be an increasing threat earlier this year and has stated that it is often resistant to multiple
antifungal drugs, spreads easily, and can cause severe infections with high death rates.