Medicine reaches the target with the help of magnets
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
If a drug can be guided to the right place in the body, the treatment is more effective and there are fewer side-effects. Researchers in Sweden have now developed magnetic nanoparticles that can be directed to metallic implants such as artificial knee joints, hip joints and stents in the coronary arteries.
