An effective dose in pharmacology is the amount of drug that produces a therapeutic response in 50% of the people taking it, sometimes also called ED-50. In radiation protection it is an estimate of the stochastic effect that a non-uniform radiation dose has on a human.It is measure of potency of the drug.

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In pharmacology, effective dose is the median dose that produces the desired effect of a drug. The effective dose is often determined based on analysing the dose-response relationship specific to the drug. The dosage that produces a desired effect in half the test population is referred to as the ED-50, for "Effective dose, 50%".

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selectivity index is curative dose over effective dose?
Q. given that a higher selectivity index is considered as a better drug against AIDS, would it be correct to say that (curative dose)/(effective dose) = (toxicity of drug)/(activity of drug)? if it is, then why is a drug with higher selectivity index better? isn't it worse seeing how it'll kill the patient
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A. This is off of my sleeve but isn't it like chemo except in a different manner since AIDS changes on it's host? Hit the disease harder and hope for a better outcome? Intelligent question!
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