Thesaurus results for MEDICINES

medicines

noun

plural of medicine

as in medications

a substance or preparation used to treat disease if you don't take all the doses of your medicine, you might get sick again

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Recent Examples of medicines The flight would carry critical medicines, food, nurses and doctors. —

Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 9 June 2026 Thick biologics and medicines typically require big needles and long hospital infusions. —

Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 9 June 2026 Maraganore and City’s CEO, Andy Orth, brought the first such medicines to market in the late 2010s. —

Elaine Chen, STAT, 9 June 2026 That evolved into working with Aslam to balance the patient’s post-transplant anti-rejection medicines and medication for HIV. —

Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026 The drug maker Eli Lilly announced last week that both of its obesity medicines will soon be on the formularies of all three of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, OptumRx, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark. —

Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 These medicines are disease-modifying therapies that address root causes and enhance quality of life rather than just managing symptoms. —

Karen R. Studer, Sacbee.com, 1 June 2026 That includes medicines and batteries. —

Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 31 May 2026 Their medicines won’t be ready for years, if ever. —

Bloomberg, Oc Register, 29 May 2026

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Although the study measured people’s ability to manage medications and healthcare, the results of the study are not an indictment on the individual, but rather a call to action for the health system to improve communication and collaboration with patients, Wolf said.

— Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
Gopuff, based in Philadelphia, is a delivery service for everything from groceries and household items to over-the-counter medications and alcohol, according to the company website.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 9 June 2026