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Recent Examples of wonder drugThere’s a little bit of business about how Zora and her team will be harvesting blood from the biggest dinos of land, sea, and sky in order to create a wonder drug that will cure heart disease … and isn’t heart disease how her mother died?—Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 July 2025 This class of treatment — monoclonal antibodies, special artificial proteins that carry instructions to the body’s immune system — have the potential to be a genuine all-in-one allergy wonder drug.—Dylan Scott, Vox, 15 Apr. 2025 The wonder drug that still has everyone talking is the GLP-1 franchise owned by Eli Lilly , its popular weight-loss treatment Zepbound and type-2 diabetes drug Mounjaro.—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2025 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
But the science is clear that the miracle drug of our daily behaviors is already available to us.
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Arianna Huffington,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
Pharmaceutical innovations, for example, have produced miracle drugs, but many of these therapies cost six figures and remain inaccessible to many Americans.
The driver of the truck, a 40-year-old man, was not hurt and will be subject to drug and alcohol testing, which police say is standard procedure.
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Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
Such advances are particularly valuable in drug discovery, where precise molecular design is essential, as well as in the development of advanced materials and agrochemicals.
The most famous, perhaps, was of lung cancer patient David Prueitt, who swallowed a supposedly lethal dose of medication and awoke three days later.
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Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
Anyone with diabetes or taking glucose-lowering medications should consult a healthcare provider before adding magnesium, berberine, or both to their management plan.
Older remedies approved to treat motion sickness include antihistamines such as dimenhydrinate (Dramamine) and meclizine (Bonine/Dramamine nondrowsy), and anticholinergics delivered via skin patch such as hyoscine (Scopolamine).
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Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
8 Jan. 2026
The root cause of Cuba’s tragedy is Cuban; the remedy for Cuba will be Cuban, too.