Wed, Nov 10, 2004 - Page 7 News List

Cardiologists hail first drug designed for a specific race

AP , NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

Others worried that the drug might not be the best choice for every black but that they will automatically be prescribed "the black pill" solely on the basis of skin color.

Being black is not a black-and-white distinction, said Dr. Timothy Gardner of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who had no role in the study. "Physiologically, it's a sort of continuous variable," including people of mixed races, he said.

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