new drug
noun
: a drug that has not been declared safe and effective by qualified experts under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the label and that may be a new chemical formula or an established drug prescribed for use in a new way
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Mattias Balk | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Bristol and Hengrui will each contribute assets and will work together on developing new drugs, making China look less like a source of one-off molecules and more like a part of pharma's global research and development operating system, Baran said.
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Angelica Peebles, CNBC, 15 May 2026
That an unnamed new drug can bring patients back from the dead.
—Jon Christian, Futurism, 13 May 2026
In all of last year, the lab identified 27 new drugs.
—CNN Money, 13 May 2026
Stinson herself benefited from one of them — a new drug called daraxonrasib, a medicine that works by targeting and killing cancer cells that have a common mutation.
—Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 12 May 2026
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Angelica Peebles, CNBC, 15 May 2026
That an unnamed new drug can bring patients back from the dead.
—Jon Christian, Futurism, 13 May 2026
In all of last year, the lab identified 27 new drugs.
—CNN Money, 13 May 2026
Stinson herself benefited from one of them — a new drug called daraxonrasib, a medicine that works by targeting and killing cancer cells that have a common mutation.
—Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 12 May 2026
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“New drug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/new%20drug. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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