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Drug Trials and Older People

Time to Embrace the Complexity of Age

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M.D. Witham is funded by a Scottish Government CSO Clinician Scientist award. The author has no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.

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Witham, M.D. Drug Trials and Older People. Drugs Aging 28, 679–680 (2011). https://doi.org/10.2165/11595070-000000000-00000

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