wonder drug

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Recent Examples of wonder drug The wonder drug that still has everyone talking is the GLP-1 franchise owned by Eli Lilly , its popular weight-loss treatment Zepbound and type-2 diabetes drug Mounjaro. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for wonder drug
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Noun
  • 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
  • The show is set in 2055, after the disappearance of a doctor who discovered a miracle drug that has no side effects.
    Rafael Motamayor, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The most common classes of antihypertensive drugs are angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs).
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 8 July 2025
  • If your dry mouth is chronic and/or caused by a Sjogren’s or a side effect of radiation, your doctor may write you a prescription for a drug that increases natural saliva production like pilocarpine (Salagen) or cevimeline (Evoxac).
    Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Certain medications may affect how your body tolerates hot weather.
    Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 10 July 2025
  • Think of your walk as similar to taking a prescription medication every day.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Claim 5: Homeopathy and Supplements Can Replace Vaccines Homeopathic remedies and supplements have not been shown to trigger an immune response or prevent disease like vaccines do.
    Tim Ryan, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • The State Executive Committee then reviews the case to find a remedy, according to the rule.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • The paralysis must be from a cervical spinal cord injury or from ALS, a rare disease with no cure that causes nerve cells to stop working and muscles to become weak, leading to paralysis.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025
  • Collectively, those events have raised $24 million toward finding a cure for NF since the charitable organization was founded about 15 years ago.
    Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025

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