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APRIL 7, 2016

New Tool Tailors Drug Dosing for Patients

By PPN News Staff
A new computational tool successfully tested in a small pilot trial harnesses clinical data to predict the optimal drug dose for an individual (Sci Transl Med 2016 Apr 6. [Epub ahead of print]).
 
The mathematical approach underlying the tool promises to take the educated guesswork out of prescribing medications for immunosuppression, cancer, heart disease, bacterial infections and other conditions that require tightly controlled treatment regimens.
 
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