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Recent Examples of miracle drugAntibiotics, the miracle drugs that revolutionized medicine in the 20th century, are rapidly losing their power.—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025 Jurassic World Rebirth focuses on a pharmaceutical company’s attempts to harvest dinosaur blood as part of an attempt to create a miracle drug.—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 July 2025 The show is set in 2055, after the disappearance of a doctor who discovered a miracle drug that has no side effects.—Rafael Motamayor, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 The drug company family sees the beast as a source of expensive miracle drugs, but the unicorn has other ideas.—Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for miracle drug
And every few years, a wonder drug comes along that seems to fit the definition.
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Thomas Goetz,
STAT,
8 Jan. 2026
Scientists have failed to show that weight-loss wonder drug semaglutide slows the progress of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as two-year clinical trials end in disappointment for patients, medical scientists and drugmaker Novo Nordisk.
The third site, in the 900 block of Reno Avenue in Modesto, was used by the drug trafficking organization to store and distribute illicit narcotics, which were being sold throughout Northern California, authorities said.
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Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
Wardens were previously required to provide, as well as cover the cost of, hormonal drugs and medically unnecessary procedures to prisoners who sought to physically alter themselves to appear as the opposite sex.
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Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Mar. 2026
In 2022, former President Joe Biden’s BOP reinstated the Transgender Offender Manual, which was originally released by the Obama-Biden administration in January 2017, but that version had only made hormone medication accessible at the time.
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Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Mar. 2026
While mushrooms can be nutritional powerhouses, eating the wrong species of mushroom can kill you, while others can cause allergic reactions, digestive issues and negatively interact with certain medications, especially blood thinners.
Officials say the event was an educational enrichment program in Sacramento County, but no other specifics – including where exactly the event was held – have been released.
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Cecilio Padilla,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
Pushed on the Mandelson joke that never made it to air, there appeared to be confusion on the specifics.