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Aiming for ‘Magic Bullets’ in Medicine: Are We Shooting Ourselves in the Foot?

Clarivate

A ‘magic bullet’ medicine that can cure a disease quickly and completely, [1] without deleterious side effects. [2] 3] Figure 1: The Development of Targeted Treatments for Syphilis Source: Valent P et al, 2016;3 Strebhardt K et al, 2008. [4] Wouldn’t it be great to find a single cure for every disease?

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Precision Medicine Needs an Overhaul

PM360

During the period from 2008 through 2020, the number of precision medicines in the US increased from 5 to 285. When once a small population needed a special status called “rare”, now all diseases will be defined by endotypes and phenotypes – smaller segments of like patients with common molecular characteristics.

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Direct to Patient Healthcare

Healthcare Success

What's that even for this, back in like 2008. And I think it's we have kind of a special model of it, but it's Lee Aase: The big difference is that we don't take insurance. And how do you even do that like? Stewart Gandolf: Yeah. Lee Aase: And I said, Well, I'm flying out. Actually, I'm flying to Baltimore. Lee Aase: Yeah.

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Ep. 001 – John Mack Podcast Transcript

Pharma Marketing Network

That was in 2008. So he was a real diabetic who would have to use the drug before race, he would have a special helmet that had orange juice in it incase while driving, and he was all logoed everything, you know, his car, his uniform, and everything. But you’d have to have one click to the side effects.

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