Uncovering A New Reason Why Patients Respond Differently To The Same Drug Dose

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Uncovering A New Reason Why Patients Respond Differently To The Same Drug Dose - 16-01-2007, 06:00 AM

Why does the standard dose of certain medications prove dangerously high for some patients and too low to produce beneficial effects in others? Scientists have added a previously unrecognized factor to the list of explanations (such as age, gender, diet and genetics) for this common problem of individual variability in response to drugs.

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