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
  • Lucy and Pickard receive treatment through intravenous (IV) ketamine therapy ‒ a legal but off-label use of the drug.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • That behavior included drug use and related incidents, and disparaging comments about series co-creator Chuck Lorre.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Many parents from my practice share a common concern about their children taking asthma medications with steroids.
    Rhonda Conner-Warren, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Some experts believe that certain medications — a category called fall risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs) — could be to blame.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The best smart telescopes offer a powerful remedy to this problem in the form of advanced image stacking and real-time processing to filter out artificial light interference and reveal detail in objects that would be difficult to observe with the naked eye or traditional optics.
    Harry Bennett, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • As the Harvard Business Review (HBR) explains, learning is a remedy for the fear of failure.
    Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Plus, the cheaper money isn’t an immediate cure.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • While far from a cure, the study points to a new path that combines advanced manufacturing, stem cell science, and regenerative medicine.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025

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