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Tue 02 Feb 2010Teaching old drugs new tricks
A clinical trial, which is to begin shortly, will look at a new way of delivering drugs to patients with ulcerative colitis, writes CLAIRE O'CONNELL
CAN YOU teach an old drug new tricks? That’s what an innovative Irish-led clinical trial plans to do over coming months. By delivering a well-known immune-suppressing drug straight to where it needs to act in the gut, the approach could potentially offer a new way of treating ulcerative colitis.
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