What Do Modern Drugs Do?
A quick follow up to the modern drugs post of a few days ago. Here is an overview of the WHO ATC classification of recent drugs (it is not quite the same dataset as before (I have extended it back a year, and not all modern drugs have been assigned ATC codes yet) but it gives an idea of what physiological systems more modern drugs act on.
It is of note that in excess of half of all modern drugs are targeted at cancer, the nervous system, and anti-infective disease.