Another Drug to Cross Off the Personalized Med List

Aug 08, 2007

A feature article in the August issue of Scientific American throws into question the concept of race-based drugs — how race is, or is not, meaningfully taken into account as a way to label genetic variation among individuals in clinical trials.

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