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A better pill to swallow?
Author(s) -
Ramachandran K.,
Vries L.,
Haden R.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2004.03699.x
Subject(s) - medicine , laryngeal mask airway , airway , anesthesia , laryngeal masks , pill , surgery , elective surgery , general anaesthesia , pharmacology
Have you taken a medicine that hasn't worked, leaving a headache or some other ailment to linger on? Well, pharmacogeneticists have been telling us for some time that this apparent ineffectiveness of certain medicines might have its roots in how we metabolize drugs, but there has been little hard evidence to support this claim.