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

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.

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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

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