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May 10, 2013 06:14 pm PDT
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What happens when a drug works but only for oneperson?
Really, really intriguing piece at Nature News by Heidi Ledford. It's all about a class of patients called "exceptional responders" — aka, the people who got a benefit (sometimes a big one) from a medication or treatment that otherwise failed the clinical trial process. When we do clinical trials, we're looking at group averages. We [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uwzBuwJgjaQ/story01.htm
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