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Drug Development - Part 2

A look at why children and older people are often excluded from drug trials

A look at why children and older people are often excluded from drug trials. Because they are rarely used in trials guesswork is sometimes needed to know what dosage to give younger and older people. Children are not mini adults, they will often absorb a drug completely differently, as the programme finds out.

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23 minutes

麻豆社 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project