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THE BIOAVAILABILITY OF BENORYLATE IN HOT BEVERAGES
Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Royal Bath Hospital, Harrogate, and the Rheumatism Research Unit, University Department of Medicine, General Infirmary at Leeds
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It has been recommended that benorylate may be administered with hot beverages to overcome the problem of its relative unpalatability. Urine salicylate recovery used as a measure of bioavailability in 20 normal subjects has shown that hot coffee has no significant effect on drug availability from the orally administered suspension.