How to Use new drug in a Sentence

new drug

noun
  • The development of a new drug is a very lengthy and complex process that can cost billions of dollars.
    Alex Zhavoronkov, Phd, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • The patients who received the new drug got it intravenously once every six weeks.
    NBC News, 3 June 2021
  • The results are part of a Phase 1 clinical trial, which look at the safety of a new drug.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The study finds that the new drug reduced the risk of death by 38 percent in patients with advanced prostate cancer.
    NBC News, 3 June 2021
  • For its manufacturer, Biogen, the new drug is poised to be a blockbuster.
    Rebecca Robbins and Pam Belluck New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • His recovery warranted a front-page headline in the New York Times: young roosevelt saved by new drug.
    Perri Klass, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • That's not how the FDA is supposed to work—its job is to consider the safety and efficacy of a new drug.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 27 May 2021
  • The first new drug for Alzheimer's disease in nearly 20 years received approval from government health officials on Monday.
    CBS News, 7 June 2021
  • Across the United States, millions of families are anxiously awaiting a decision on a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2021
  • The first new drug, approved in 2017, was Emmaus Medicine’s l-glutamine, an antioxidant that helps to maintain red blood cells’ round shape.
    Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Critics say the regulatory policy that allows compounding was never intended to be used for the mass production and marketing of new drug copies.
    Richard Collings, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The new drug, which Biogen developed with Japan’s Eisai Co., did not reverse mental decline, only slowing it in one study.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
  • The new drug label emphasizes that the drug, Aduhelm, is appropriate for patients with mild or early-stage Alzheimer's but has not been studied in patients with more advanced disease.
    NBC News, 8 June 2021
  • The deaths are linked to a new drug that challenges the laws of time.
    Starr Savoy, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But states have been slow to catch up with these new drug products.
    Eric Berger, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Last year, the FDA approved the first new drug for the Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
  • That's how much Aduhelm, a new drug to treat Alzheimer's disease, costs per year.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Nor does that cover the question of which new drugs might fall by the wayside.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The pharmaceutical giant hopes the new drug will be ready by the end of the year.
    Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The new drug, known as EDP-938, works by preventing the virus from making copies of itself in the body.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Even when scientists super-dosed the mice with the new drug, the rodents seemed to do just fine.
    Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2022
  • By law, Medicare pays doctors 103% of the price of a new drug covered by Part B.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Nico's probably the new drug lord of Rio, all that money that was left for him.
    Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 18 June 2021
  • This isn’t the first time that a new drug has threatened to break the national healthcare bank.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • That decision is a boon to Clear Creek, which began working on ideas for the new drug in the spring of 2021.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The surge comes amid a shortage of a new drug meant to prevent RSV infection.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • My doctor said a new drug called Ofev might be helpful.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The last time there was this much hype over a new drug was for Viagra, which was approved in 1998.
    Emma Court, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Bringing a new drug to patients can take more than 10 years.
    Eva Temkin, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The approval of the new drug, teplizumab, follows a study published in 2019 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
    Theresa Sullivan Barger, Hartford Courant, 17 Dec. 2022

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