This is a very exciting subject!
The more new drugs we invent, the more opportunities exist and become discovered to repurpose them.
We have now a more than 125 years of history of inventing pharmaceutical drugs, the potential for repurposing increases with every new drug.
The news of repurposed drugs to treat medical conditions also become more frequent. Here is just one very recent example: Uncovering Drivers of—and Possible Treatment for—Noonan Syndrome Heart Defects ("... additionally identifying a leukemia drug [dasatinib, FDA approved in 2006] that shows promise as a therapeutic ...")
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