One Man’s Medicine: Jeff Aronson has a review of a BBC radio series about drugs in the BMJ:
It seems that every broadcast dealing with drugs must have a political agenda. And that seemed to be the problem with the first programme. The second, however, vitiated this view by starting to provide a better balance between highlighting the differences between individuals and clarifying the problems that drug developers and prescribers face in dealing with those differences. With judicious re-editing a single really informative programme could be made.The third programme was the best of all. The potential value of the genomic revolution in relation to drug therapy has been grossly hyped, but here the issues were clearly stated and put into perspective, stressing the polygenicity of most drug effects and the balancing role of environmental factors.
I missed the first one, but thankfully you can listen to the series on-line if you are interested.