as in medication
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
if you don't take all the doses of your medicine, you might get sick again
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Clayton Dalton
Dalton is an E.R. doctor who writes about health and medicine.
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Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Rights & Permissions Tanya Lewis is a senior editor covering health and medicine at Scientific American.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2025
Evan Lam, who aspires to study medicine at UC Irvine, often acts as his mom’s Disney ears style arbiter.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
The Indianapolis facility includes a manufacturing plant that will begin producing drugs in 2026 and a site that represents the largest investment to make active pharmaceutical ingredients for synthetic medicines in the country's history.
—Alice Park, Time, 17 Apr. 2025
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Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Rights & Permissions Tanya Lewis is a senior editor covering health and medicine at Scientific American.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2025
Evan Lam, who aspires to study medicine at UC Irvine, often acts as his mom’s Disney ears style arbiter.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
The Indianapolis facility includes a manufacturing plant that will begin producing drugs in 2026 and a site that represents the largest investment to make active pharmaceutical ingredients for synthetic medicines in the country's history.
—Alice Park, Time, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicine
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However, the promising molecule required double the number of steps to build than typical small-molecule medications.—
Alice Park,
Time,
17 Apr. 2025
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Schroeder was relying on anxiety and anti-depression medications to get through the day.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Apr. 2025
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The weight loss drug market has exploded, and Kailera Therapeutics is coming for its leaders, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Pfizer is betting on its pipeline of cancer drugs to deliver long-term growth, but has emphasized that obesity is a key focus.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2025
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In the first days of testimony in the remedy trial being heard at the D.C. federal court, Microsoft comes up frequently.—
Jaclyn Diaz,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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The remedy that will follow the decision could break up the company, or at least separate its Chrome web browser business from the rest of the portfolio.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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But what the production really needs is a script doctor capable of a miracle cure.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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The National Institutes of Health will begin collecting Americans' private health records as part of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial plan to discover a cause and a cure for autism.—
Alana Wise,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicine. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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