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Reverse Biden’s order to lower the cost of prescription drugs and cap insulin prices.
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Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2025
This can be a difficult balance for prescription drug ads to land when they are required to list off all their potential side effects.
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Bruce Gil, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2025
These leaders are stepping up and doing something about the crushing weight of prescription drug prices.
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Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025
Because the government does not regulate pharmaceutical pricing, the cost of drugs is 256 percent higher in the U.S. than in other countries, prompting many Americans to skip their medication, navigate informal markets, and access prescription drugs through other countries.
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Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
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Word History
First Known Use
1872, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of prescription drug was
in 1872
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“Prescription drug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prescription%20drug. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
Medical Definition
prescription drug
noun
: a drug that can be obtained only by means of a physician's prescription
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