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Medicine and the Machine

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

Oct 31, 2023
37:28

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/

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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: news@medscape.net

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