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RE: 3D-Bioprinting may change how we administer drugs
How would the doctor or any machine rather know exactly how one;s body is going to interact with medicine? There is a magnitude of factors to consider in terms of how are body reacts before we can start thinking about 3D printing custom made tablets for each patients. Maybe custom made tablets for each disease is more attainable, but each patient at this stage is still farfetched
That's why they perform clinical trials, to study and assess the effects of drugs and their dosage. Doctors can actually guess the range of optimal dosage for a patient but they would be able to fine-tune the dose for a patient as the therapy progresses. Also consider that if you are male of female, or if you are young or old the optimal dosage changes (also your weight influences it), yet we currently give the same pill regardless of these factors. We can definitely do better than that!
I agree that we can do better and we are working towards doing better. Nonetheless, interesting read and interesting to see different technologies being implemented in medicine. Keep up the good work
Thank you