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Drug markers questioned

A Correction to this article was published on 09 April 2008

A recent spate of worrying clinical-trial data has researchers questioning drugs approved on the basis of how they affect biomarkers rather than clinical endpoints. Heidi Ledford looks at surrogate markers.

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Ledford, H. Drug markers questioned. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452510a

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