wonder drug

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Recent Examples of wonder drug Waksal had been tipped that the FDA was not going to approve his wonder drug. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024 With the entire world plunged into panic about a popular wonder drug that’s about to start killing people, Axel and Lazarus’ other operatives are the only people who might be able to find a solution. Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2024 The blockbuster medications have been hailed as wonder drugs for their profound effects on diabetes and weight loss, but a growing number of doctors are concerned that the medications are triggering or worsening eating disorders in some people. Liz Szabo, NBC News, 31 July 2024 Photo: David Yellen The first great wonder drug was insulin, the blood-sugar-regulating hormone that was isolated in Canada nearly a century ago. IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2015 See All Example Sentences for wonder drug
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wonder drug
Noun
  • Pharmaceutical innovations, for example, have produced miracle drugs, but many of these therapies cost six figures and remain inaccessible to many Americans.
    Michael Johnson, Forbes.com, 25 July 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
Noun
  • In the life sciences realm, the company is analyzing molecular and clinical data with the help of artificial intelligence to facilitate drug research and development.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The medication used to treat some parasites has also been used to treat COVID-19.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Trump on Monday demanded that COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers prove that their shots have been effective, adding to his long string of comments alternately praising − and doubting the effectiveness of − the potentially life-saving medication.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Creating majority-Black districts in the South has been a longstanding remedy to the historic dispersal of minority populations across multiple districts to dilute their voting power.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The big tech giant won’t be required to sell its Chrome browser — one of the remedies originally requested by the Biden-era Department of Justice.
    Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Plus, the cheaper money isn’t an immediate cure.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • While far from a cure, the study points to a new path that combines advanced manufacturing, stem cell science, and regenerative medicine.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025

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