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Is your medicine getting to where it is needed? Article in Technology 
Review discusses a new way drug companies can verify the results.

>Even the most promising drug will fail if it never reaches its 
>target. So before starting large clinical trials, pharmaceutical 
>companies must determine, among other things, the precise dosage to 
>use, a process that can be expensive and time-consuming. Scientists 
>investigating a drug for Parkinson's disease have now shown how an 
>MRI scan can quickly determine the optimal dosage for drugs that act 
>on the brain.

Full story is here:

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/26883/?p1=A3

John Cottingham 

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