new drug
noun
: a drug that has not been declared safe and effective by qualified experts under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the label and that may be a new chemical formula or an established drug prescribed for use in a new way
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Letting the 5th Circuit’s decision stand could also reduce the incentives for companies to introduce new drugs, PhRMA argued.
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Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 8 May 2026
The term seeding trial first entered the medical literature in 1994, when then-commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration David Kessler and his colleagues described such studies as attempts to entice doctors to prescribe new drugs through trials that appear to serve little scientific purpose.
—Sukhun Kang, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
And the ability to do that is big business, especially for pharmaceutical companies who can lose billions of dollars when new drugs have made it through many phases of development only to be thwarted by a late-stage mutation or resistance.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
China is leading the world in clinical trials for new drugs.
—Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2026
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Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 8 May 2026
The term seeding trial first entered the medical literature in 1994, when then-commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration David Kessler and his colleagues described such studies as attempts to entice doctors to prescribe new drugs through trials that appear to serve little scientific purpose.
—Sukhun Kang, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
And the ability to do that is big business, especially for pharmaceutical companies who can lose billions of dollars when new drugs have made it through many phases of development only to be thwarted by a late-stage mutation or resistance.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
China is leading the world in clinical trials for new drugs.
—Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2026
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“New drug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/new%20drug. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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