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crazy how a medicine went from treating heart disease to ed now to treating alzheimer's. wish more drugs were like this these days, but most modern drugs hardly

• david-gpu 5y ago
  Presumably the only old drugs still in use are the ones that were particularly effective. Old but ineffective drugs will over time be naturally replaced and forgotten. It's the same sort of reasoning why ageless musical hits are still enjoyed today. The musical hits that aged poorly have been forgotten over time. It's not that old stuff was better, it's that modern stuff hasn't had enough time for the crap to be forgotten.
  • amluto 5y ago
    cough phenylephrine. Old, widely used, and most studies suggest that it’s essentially completely useless for its intended purpose.