Not Signed In - Uncovering A New Reason Why Patients Respond Differently To The Same Drug Dose
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:00 AM EST
... 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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