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Getting the dose right
Malaria
English - July 28, 2015 15:35 - 7 minutes - 8.02 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCourses Education Health & Fitness Medicine Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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 Bangkok, Thailand. He's working towards drug dose-optimisation using novel pharmacometric modelling approaches. He is particularly interested in antimalarial treatments for children and pregnant women.