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We leverage #ai to unlock the power of each and every drug to treat each and every potential disease they possibly can.

Inspired by @DavidFajgenbaum

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A 40-year-old drug that everyone had forgotten about could actually be a potential treatment for diseases like Parkinson’s and maybe even some cancers.

Recent research from a team at NCATS determined that auranofin, a drug around for decades treating rheumatoid arthritis, is

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When All Hope Seemed Lost, a Repurposed Drug Gave Kaila a Second Chance

Kaila’s parents reached out to us at the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network in September 2019.

At that time, Kaila was hospitalized in the ICU with all of her organs shutting down. Her doctors were

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Imagine your daughter is being rushed to the ER without having any idea of what's wrong.

Even worse, no medication is helping, and you have no more treatment options.

But what if the drug that could save your daughter's life was sitting at your local pharmacy all along?

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We are excited to bring you our newest patient documentary about Kaila, a rare disease patient whose life was saved thanks to a repurposed drug that had never been tried before.

Click the link below to watch the full episode!
youtube.com/watch?v=YXwIt5…

We are excited to bring you our newest patient documentary about Kaila, a rare disease patient whose life was saved thanks to a repurposed drug that had never been tried before. Click the link below to watch the full episode! youtube.com/watch?v=YXwIt5…
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Debilitating symptoms experienced by individuals with Down syndrome may actually benefit from repurposed treatments!

Researchers at Children's Hospital of LA and Colorado have done amazing work to uncover that two existing drugs, IVIg and Tofacitinib, might be helpful for

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How do you keep going when you're on the brink of death?

One of the crucial lessons I learned while fighting for my life was taking things one day at a time, or in my case it ended up being one breath at a time because I was in so much pain

Whether you are fighting a rare

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Huge news! WHIM Syndrome received its first ever approved therapy!

WHIM syndrome, a rare and devastating condition that makes individuals more susceptible to potentially life-threatening bacterial infections, which up until now had no treatment options available.

While this

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Did you know that the price of a drug is determined by the disease it's developed for not the cost of the actual drug?

When tocilizumab was created for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), its price was set based on other RA drugs, not the actual cost of production. Once established in

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Great chat with Grant W Mitchell co-founder and CEO of Every Cure, a non-profit using AI to unlock the power of each and every existing drug to treat each and every potential disease they possibly can. AI can find relationships where we only see noise.

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Huge News! A disease where your muscle turns into bone might be able to benefit from an old repurposed drug.

I was thrilled to learn this week that my colleague Fred Kaplan's research suggests that an old antibiotic called minocycline might be effective in reversing this

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When I first showed symptoms of Castleman Disease as a third year med student, the fatigue got so intense that I actually had to take 7 minute naps between seeing patients.

And that’s while consuming cups and cups of coffee and taking caffeine pills just to try anything to stay

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We love seeing this study about sirolimus as a treatment for disease! The drug that Every Cure co-founder David Fajgenbaum, MD discovered 10 years ago to save his life and so many more lives! An experience that inspired Every Cure to be created!

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We met with over 300 potential funders before we raised our first million dollars for Every Cure.

I loved Seema Kumar’s question on We Will Cure Tuesday Talks about advice for start-up entrepreneurs, which would to be resilient and steadfast in your mission.

It’s easy to assume

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Huge news! Aspirin may be a treatment for colon cancer.

A study just came out suggesting that individuals with colon cancer who take aspirin have a lower risk of having metastases of their cancer.

This is finding highlights why Every Cure exists, to find more uses for these

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As an advisor to @Cure345 Xchange challenge, I know first hand that @everycure AI-powered platform could change the way we approach repurposing of already approved drugs to find potential new treatments & cures for millions of patients who suffer from the most debilitating

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Next week on Tuesday Talks, Every Cure co-founders David Fajgenbaum, MD & @GrantWMitchell sit down to discuss how their new innovative AI platform is working towards repurposing FDA-approved drugs for new treatments & cures. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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