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Repurposing generic drugs can reduce time and cost to develop new treatments – but low profitability remains a barrier
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Discovering new ways to use existing drugs can come about intentionally or by chance. Sometimes physicians or patients notice an unanticipated beneficial effect from a drug. One example is sildenafil, a drug originally developed to treat severe chest…