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medications

noun

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plural of medication

as in drugs

a substance or preparation used to treat disease the doctor prescribed two different medications for the infection

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Recent Examples of medications The defense has noted that Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, had been prescribed 15 medications in the months prior for her postpartum depression. —

Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026 While cholera hasn't yet reached that crisis point, the bacteria’s ability to adapt means current medications could eventually become useless, experts warn. —

Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026 But the program covers only three brand-name medications, and discounts can’t be combined with insurance or applied toward deductibles. —

Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026 That figure includes approximately $11,000 in clinic fees and about $5,000 for medications, which are typically billed through a separate pharmacy. —

Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026 Nedergaard and her colleagues also found that some sleep medications can disrupt these natural brain rhythms in mice, potentially impairing the glymphatic cleaning process. —

Amanda Erickson, STAT, 7 Apr. 2026 There is a self-serve kiosk inside the Village Hall by the police station, which is downstairs, where people can drop off their medications. —

Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026 Fundamentally, drugs don’t have to just interact with proteins, but this is a major way in which our current repertoire of medications work. —

Benjamin P. Brown, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026 The committee substitute aligned the bill with federal requirements, beginning the start of co-pays in October 2028 and reducing them to $5 for all health care services and $1 for prescription medications. —

Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Apr. 2026

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Partly that’s due to recently winning the Lasker Award, considered the most prestigious honor in medical research, but also because there’s just enough distance from the drugs his research helped produce to want to put words to the arc.

— Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
Inside the backpack was an Ibuprofen bottle which contained four Alprazolam pills and one Oxycodone pill — both of which are Schedule II drugs that require a prescription, per the report.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026