Objective: To understand the possible association between media coverage and changes in the dispensation of doxylamine-pyridoxine in Canada.
Design: Cross-sectional time-series analysis using data from the IQVIA CompuScript database.
Setting: Ten Canadian provinces.
In the absence of effective treatment, COVID-19 is likely to remain a global disease burden. Compounding this threat is the near certainty that novel coronaviruses with pandemic potential will emerge in years to come. Pan-coronavirus drugs-agents active against both SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses-would address both threats.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInternational efforts are underway to develop chemical probes for specific protein families, and a 'Target 2035' call to expand these efforts towards a comprehensive chemical coverage of the druggable human genome was recently announced. But what is the druggable genome? Here, we systematically review structures of proteins bound to drug-like ligands available from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and use ligand desolvation upon binding as a druggability metric to draw a landscape of the human druggable genome. The vast majority of druggable protein families, including some highly populated and disease-associated families, are almost orphan of small-molecule ligands.
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