Targeted drug delivery could transform therapies

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A world expert in biomedical engineering will today argue that medical science has been focusing on the wrong problem for 30 years. Instead of inventing new drugs, making better use of the drugs we already have available by targeting them to the affected part of the body could hold the answer to tackling many of today’s life threatening diseases.
SOURCE: Medical Xpress – Medical research News – Read entire story here.

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