How to Use new drug in a Sentence

new drug

noun
Definition of new drugnext
Synonyms for new drugnext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The new drug aims to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s by removing that protein.
    — Tom Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • California, meet the new drug war, same as the old drug war in too many troubling ways.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Lilly said the contract for its new drug — bebtelovimab — is worth at least $720 million.
    — NBC News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The patience of patients In the end, every new drug or treatment comes down to a patient in search of a better life.
    — Stat Staff, STAT, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade.
    — Chengpeng Chen, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Every new drug starts with three names: a chemical name, a generic name and a brand name.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 July 2022
  • The new drug is thought to stop the immune system from attacking the insulin-making cells in the pancreas.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The new drug is the first of its kind designed to be given to at-risk patients as a preventive measure.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2022
  • He had been booked back into the jail on new drug trafficking charges just three days prior to his death.
    — Essence, 15 Sep. 2022
  • But the power of making the change resides with the FDA, which has to follow a three-step review process to allow a new drug to be sold over the counter.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 29 June 2022
  • Now, a new drug on the scene promises to be more effective and safer than any other weight loss drug before.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • An expert panel will debate next week whether to approve a new drug to treat ALS.
    — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Daniela Hernandez explains the science behind the new drug.
    — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
  • And despite medical breakthroughs in recent years, new drugs are still out of reach for many.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • With the help of the AlphaFold technology, the initiative was able to speed up the development of a new drug to treat one of the diseases.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Yancey, who now works for a biotechnology company in Boston, helped jumpstart the hunt for a new drug in the lake.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Part of the excitement for these new drugs is the potential for broader health benefits - and the cost savings that could flow from them.
    — Daniel Gilbert, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023

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