In 2017, cancer drugs once again dominated the news, with many of these medications making headlines for being the first of their kind to gain approval. Beyond cancer, drugs for inflammatory diseases also received attention, for both their successes and their failures.
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In the December 2017 issue, the article "Drugs that made headlines in 2017" (Nat. Med. 23, 1392–1393, 2017) inaccurately described the mechanism of the RNAi drug fitusiran. The drug does not fix defective RNA code or a defective protein, but rather suppresses the production of a functional protein. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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Chakradhar, S. Drugs that made headlines in 2017. Nat Med 23, 1392–1393 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1217-1392
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