Drug repurposing involves finding new therapeutic uses for existing drugs, including marketed, discontinued, shelved, and investigational drugs. The advantages of this strategy are many: reduced drug development timeline, ...

Drug repurposing or repositioning is a technique whereby existing drugs are used to treat emerging and challenging diseases, including COVID-19. Drug repurposing has become a promising approach because of the opportunity ...

The recent outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), first in Eastern Asia and then essentially across the world has been declared a pandemic by the WHO. COVID-19 is caused by a novel virus SARS-CoV2 (2019-nCoV), against ...

Introduction: Drug repositioning implies finding new medical uses for existing drugs. It represents a cost-efficient approach, since the new indications are built on the basis of available information on pharmacokinetics, ...

Drug repurposing (i.e., finding new therapeutic uses for already known drugs, including approved, abandoned, discontinued, and investigational drugs) is being extensively applied worldwide to expedite the development of ...

Background:A novel corona virus-2 disease has spread to 213 countries and territories across the globe. The corona pandemic has claimed more than 548,934 deaths worldwide till the evening of 8 th of July 2020 and the ...

Introduction: The current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in disastrous human and economic costs, mainly due to the absence of specific treatments to ameliorate the effects of this emerging viral disease. Complementary to ...