No one suspected a 50 year old kidney drug called spironolactone might hold the key to a new generation of herpesvirus drugs.
University of Utah researchers hoped their new assay might uncover a new way to treat EBV infections – but they were shocked at what it turned up. How could a 50 year old kidney drug called Spironolactone have anything to do with EBV?
Four years later they knew how – and the possibility for a more effective drug to treat herpesvirus infections was borne.
The moral to this story – you never know where an answer may come from. It could even be sitting on an aisle in your pharmacy.
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I have been wishing that they would do this very thing for Clonidine. Clonidine helps with my pain, but gives me nightmares, and dries me out terribly, which I don’t need with Sjögren’s in my family. I tried another centrally acting sympatholytic by the trade name of Intuniv, which actually made my pain much worse, so it’s not just the class of drug that helps. I may try to email the team that did this to see if they will do the same for Clonidine.