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Tailor-Made Treatment For Rheumatoid Arthritis, Japan

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Article Date: 29 Mar 2006 - 0:00 PDT

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Tokyo, (JCN) - Tokyo Women's Medical University, Order-Made Souyaku and NTT Data jointly announced on March 23 that they have started research for establishing tailor-made treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.

The three partners aim to create a system for enabling evidence-based medicine. Tokyo Women's Medical University will accumulate and provide evidences in drug efficacy, side effects and gene polymorphism, Order-Made Souyaku will provide devices and reagents for SNP typing, and NTT Data will handle the construction and improvement of system based on the evidences provided.

A prototype system currently runs at the Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University.

By jcn, JCN Staff Writer

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