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
  • Petro has scaled back efforts to target drug supply, instead trying to solve the issue through social programs.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The researchers tested their two-part drug on mice and zebrafish engineered to produce β-glucuronidase, and found that the drug was activated almost exclusively in tumors, sparing healthy tissue and organs.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There are medications people can take to slow down the virus, but there's no cure.
    Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • An additional part of managing the stress and emotional strain associated with cancer can be medication, such as antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications.
    Julie Scott, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nothing set forth herein constitutes a waiver of any of my client’s rights, remedies, claims or defendants at law or in equity all of which are expressly reserved.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Transparency needs to be at the core of any remedy.
    John J. Donohue, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Don’t pretend the cure for coarse speech is a swear jar.
    Eric Preven, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • There are medications people can take to slow down the virus, but there's no cure.
    Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025

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