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

<p>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.</p> <p>This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only.</p> <p>To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit:</p> <p>https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine</p> <p>Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape</p> <p>David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Director, Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</p> <p><em>Chasing My Cure</em>. https://chasingmycure.com/</p> <p><em>His Doctors Were Stumped. Then He Took Over</em>. - <em>The New York Times</em> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/business/his-doctors-were-stumped-then-he-took-over.html</p> <p>Every Cure. https://everycure.org/</p> <p>You may also like:</p> <p>Medscape's Chief Cardiology Correspondent Dr John M. Mandrola's This Week In Cardiology</p> <p>https://www.medscape.com/twic</p> <p>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</p> <p>https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington</p> <p>For questions or feedback, please email: news@medscape.net</p>