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Recent Examples of medicament If the medicaments are innocuous, there’s little harm except to the patients’ pocketbooks. Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020 At the moment, the standard treatment for drug-resistant TB involves taking highly toxic medicaments for as long as two years. The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019 The Persian author Mansur ibn Ilyas (c.1380–1422) wrote of resetting fractured or broken bones using braces and tight bandaging to immobilize and realign limbs, followed by the application of various salves and medicaments to help the bones heal. Jack Hartnell, Time, 30 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicament
Noun
  • The plaintiffs specifically took issue with the task force's recommendation in June 2019 that PrEP, a medication to prevent HIV, be included in the preventive services covered without cost-sharing arrangements.
    June 27, CBS News, 27 June 2025
  • Research has shown that medications prescribed for individuals with ADHS were associated with lower risks of self-harm and accidents, demonstrating the importance of proper medical treatment in overall safety and well-being.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Several personal assistants were tasked with setting up the red lights and candles, delivering baby oil, and sometimes picking up and delivering drugs and thousands of dollars in cash for freak-offs.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025
  • Why Specialty Clinics Feel The Pain First Specialty clinics face a perfect storm of challenges: high-cost drugs, evolving payer policies and thousands of diagnosis and procedure codes that need to match up precisely.
    Sally Ragab, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are also working on oral GLP-1 medicines.
    Rachel Fieldhouse, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
  • So, cannabis is a medicine, People need to have access to it.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Claim 5: Homeopathy and Supplements Can Replace Vaccines Homeopathic remedies and supplements have not been shown to trigger an immune response or prevent disease like vaccines do.
    Tim Ryan, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • The State Executive Committee then reviews the case to find a remedy, according to the rule.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • The paralysis must be from a cervical spinal cord injury or from ALS, a rare disease with no cure that causes nerve cells to stop working and muscles to become weak, leading to paralysis.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025
  • Collectively, those events have raised $24 million toward finding a cure for NF since the charitable organization was founded about 15 years ago.
    Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025

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“Medicament.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicament. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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