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Article: GRAPEFRUIT JUICE A BOOST.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- September 2, 1996
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Byline: Matt Crenson Associated Press
A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, but a glass of grapefruit juice often will boost its effectiveness, researchers said.
To their surprise, researchers have found that a number of drugs are absorbed into the body more easily when taken with grapefruit juice.
Drug developers are racing to understand the effect so they can use it to make their medicines more effective.
``It hasn't demonstrated any therapeutic potential yet, but it's very promising,'' said Barbara Ameer, a pharmacology consultant who presented her grapefruit juice findings last week at a meeting of the American Chemical ...