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What is with this bizarre internet obsession with drug repurposing? Let the research work its way through the system before getting hyped on any particular drug for any particular indication. This community is simply not equipped to evaluate the kind of intermediate proposals that researchers make in the literature. You have to watch hundreds of these boom-bust cycles for drugs and targets to get some perspective on what real looks like.

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In African continents IVM is over the counter. In accordance to recommended dosing, there seem to be many broadly beneficial effects versus no harmful effects. I just find it more than slightly odd that this cheap commonly available drug was explicitly banned from many (almost all??) western countries.

this cheap commonly available drug was explicitly banned from many (almost all??) western countries.

What?

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