Risky Drug Trials Poke at ‘Virtual Patients’

Published On: December 20th, 2011

Researchers are creating “virtual patients” to better model how drugs and medical devices will affect the body, particularly in hard-to-test populations like pregnant women, Shirley Wang reports on Lunch Break.

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