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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 04 > For some drugs, ‘time-released’ may mean years

For some drugs, ‘time-released’ may mean years

By C. Claiborne Ray / The Bulletin
December 4, 2008

Q: How do drugs taken once a week, once a month or even once a year do their work?

A: There are three basic mechanisms, said Dr. Marcus Reidenberg, head of the clinical pharmacology division of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

First, “some of the medications....

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