Following the doctor's prescription used to be simple enough. You dutifully swallowed your pills, smeared on your ointment or gulped down your medicine. And that was it. But physicians are finding that the old-fashioned ways of delivering medication can render treatment hopelessly ineffective -- even dangerous. Some people just forget to take pills, and repeated trips to the doctor for shots can be unpleasant and expensive. Tablets and injections can flood the bloodstream with drugs and disperse them unevenly through the system. And drugs can have toxic side effects. With an array of potent, highly specialized new therapeutic drugs on the...
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