title: Pharmacotherapeutics: what a difference five decades makes!
abstract: Our ability to prevent, cure or modify disease, as compared with relieving symptoms, has changed beyond recognition in the past half century. With the completion of the Human Genome Project and rapid advances in understanding of molecular biology and in technologies, our ability to target disease mechanisms and optimise an individual's responses will improve exponentially.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW. R.Day@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: R O
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Day
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Mashford
mesh_terms: D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000266:history*; D004335:Drug and Narcotic Control / Q000266:history; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010601:Pharmacology, Clinical / Q000266:history*; D010602:Pharmacopoeias as Topic / Q000266:history