Article: Center for Molecular Medicine Only Regional Provider of Test Suggested in FDA Alert on Prescribing Codeine to Nursing Mothers.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM) today said it was the only lab in the Midwest capable of testing nursing mothers for codeine risks cited in a Friday alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Late Friday, the FDA issued an advisory noting new information about a very rare, but serious, side effect in nursing infants whose mothers are taking codeine and are also ultra-rapid metabolizers of that drug. The FDA advisory recommended physicians order a CYP2D6 genotyping test to determine how the patient will metabolize codeine in advance of its prescription.

The FDA noted that when codeine ...

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