Medicinal products susceptible to 'dose dumping' should be fully tested

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 02:28 in Health & Medicine

Controlled release pills and capsules that show a tendency in the standard laboratory test toward 'dose dumping' - releasing their medicine in a faster and potentially unsafe manner in patients who have consumed alcohol - should be withheld from the market until proven safe with testing in people. That's the conclusion of a review of existing studies in the September-October issue of ACS' Molecular Pharmaceutics, a bi-monthly journal...

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