Getting the dose right

Malaria by Oxford University

Jul 28, 20157:00Science & Medicine

Too high a dose can result in toxicity and side-effects, too low a dose can cause the illness to come back and at worse develop resistance. Professor Joel Tarning is Head of Clinical Pharmacology in our MORU Unit in Bang...

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