The Pharmacogenetics-Supported Prescribing for Kids (PGx-SParK) research team is currently recruiting children, adolescents and young adults between six and 24 years old for a pharmacogenetic study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pharmacogenetic testing has the potential to improve drug treatment outcomes and limit the trial-and-error process by assisting doctors with medication selection and dosing. Children, adolescents and young adults planning to start or change a medication for mental health may be eligible to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participants must reside in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba or British Columbia. A doctor\u2019s referral is required. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are PGx-SPark team members from the University of Manitoba, including Dr. Alexander Singer<\/strong>, associate professor and director of research and quality improvement for the department of family medicine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information about the study or participation please email the study coordinator at psychpgxlab@ucalgary.ca<\/a> <\/strong>or visit its website: https:\/\/www.psychpgxlab.com\/projects\/pgx-spark<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pharmacogenetics-Supported Prescribing for Kids (PGx-SParK) research team is currently recruiting children, adolescents and young adults between six and 24 years old for a pharmacogenetic study. Pharmacogenetic testing has the potential to improve drug treatment outcomes and limit the trial-and-error process by assisting doctors with medication selection and dosing. Children, adolescents and young adults planning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}