When the doctor gives us medicine, it is often in the shape of a pill.
But when it comes to brain diseases, pills are actually an extremely ineffecient way to deliver drugs to the brain, and according to researchers from University of Southern Denmark we need to find new and more efficient ways of transporting drugs to the brain. Spraying the patient’s nose could be one such way.
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