There was remarkable news that came out of the UK recently. A new study published by researchers at Manchester University might have just forever changed how people will approach breast cancer prevention from now on — and the best part about it is that it won’t even need to introduce new medicine into the market.
Nowadays, arguments that center around pharmaceuticals are generally one of two topics: affordability of drugs in the US, or whether people find weight loss drugs that were primarily targeted towards diabetics “moral.” But if you zoom out, you’ll find throughout history drugs have always shifted from one purpose to another after further research. For instance, sildenafil citrate was once seen as medicine for Alzheimer’s patients before the realization that it was more suitable to help patients deal with erectile dysfunction.
