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Recent Examples of patent medicine
In addition, companies and drugstores exploited loopholes by creating and selling patent medicines with high alcohol content.
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David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023
The classic form of medical quackery in the U.S. market was patent medicine — basically useless concoctions made mainly of alcohol and morphine, sometimes containing downright damaging ingredients like lead and arsenic.
—Kim Adams, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
Who wouldn’t be thrilled by a single pill that could fix every unrelated malady? Pink Pills for Pale People were a ubiquitous patent medicine and thus a constant target for criticism.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2021
The patent medicine industry would not fully collapse until the 1930s.
—Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
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David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023
The classic form of medical quackery in the U.S. market was patent medicine — basically useless concoctions made mainly of alcohol and morphine, sometimes containing downright damaging ingredients like lead and arsenic.
—Kim Adams, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
Who wouldn’t be thrilled by a single pill that could fix every unrelated malady? Pink Pills for Pale People were a ubiquitous patent medicine and thus a constant target for criticism.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2021
The patent medicine industry would not fully collapse until the 1930s.
—Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patent medicine
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In this context, PBMs negotiate the net prices of prescription drugs and the terms and conditions for patient access.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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That's a 12 percent surge per year, primarily due to the increasing costs and use of GLP-1 prescription drugs like Ozempic.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
12 Mar. 2025
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PBMs manage prescriptions for more than 275M Americans.—
Seth Joseph,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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According to police, Manzano did not have a prescription for the drug, and police later recovered Xanax from Colbert’s residence.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2025
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Some mocktails rely on manufactured non-alcoholic spirits, botanicals and bitters but others are simple mixtures of fruit juice, soda, and syrup, experts say.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
9 Feb. 2025
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Many formulas also contain botanicals and peptides to strengthen and condition the lashes.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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All of this — new medicines, new jobs, new opportunities for kids — is too important to lose.—
Megan Barkdull,
Orlando Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2025
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Although the secretary of state and Elon Musk have assured the public that the new administration’s actions have not disrupted the distribution of life-saving medicine, that just isn’t true.—
John Green,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
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The intrigue: Is the rising use of weight-loss drugs causing people to snack less?—
Nathan Bomey,
Axios,
22 Mar. 2025
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President Claudia Sheinbaum early this month stressed that to stop the flow of drugs into the United States, the U.S. must address gun smuggling.—
Michael Loria,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Patent medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patent%20medicine. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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