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Nature 449, 972 (25 October 2007) | doi:10.1038/449972a; Published online 24 October 2007
Old laws stop drugs being used in valuable new ways
S. Paul Berger1
- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3710 SW US Veterans Hospital Road, Mail Code R&D 64, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
I strongly agree with Curtis Chong and David Sullivan's Commentary calling for the development of new uses for existing medications (Nature 448, 645–646; 2007). However, I don't believe that establishing a database of all the drugs known to clinical medicine would be sufficient to spur fresh applications of drugs in the developed world.
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