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Medicine and the Machine

Medscape

His Rare Disease's Cure Was Sitting on the Pharmacy Shelf

OCT 31, 202337 MIN
Medicine and the Machine

His Rare Disease's Cure Was Sitting on the Pharmacy Shelf

OCT 31, 202337 MIN

Description

He's alive thanks to a repurposed drug. Now his dream is to find cures for millions of people from among drugs we already have.

This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only.

To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit:

https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine

Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Director, Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Chasing My Cure. https://chasingmycure.com/

His Doctors Were Stumped. Then He Took Over. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/business/his-doctors-were-stumped-then-he-took-over.html

Every Cure. https://everycure.org/

You may also like:

Medscape's Chief Cardiology Correspondent Dr John M. Mandrola's This Week In Cardiology

https://www.medscape.com/twic

Discussions on topics at the core of cardiology and the practice of medicine with Dr Robert A. Harrington and guests on The Bob Harrington Show

https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

For questions or feedback, please email: [email protected]