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NEW ESSAY: Therapeutic Drift

A new essay in which I discuss how and why drugs get licensed for new uses

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Nov 17, 2023
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One thing that interests me greatly about pharmaceuticals is a process I’ve dubbed — somewhere, but I can’t remember — “therapeutic drift”. There may actually be a proper technical term for this process, but if there is, I’ve never heard of it. Basically, I mean the process whereby drugs originally intended for one purpose get used for another or others…

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