drug
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Clinics and medspas, promising people transformational weight loss, are procuring and selling an experimental drug that hasn’t gotten through government approval, prompting serious safety concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The drug blocks a transport protein responsible for carrying a component needed to produce acetyl-CoA.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Novo Nordisk, the Danish drug giant behind Ozempic, is streamlining its corporate culture and shortening its name as it tries to better compete in the market for weight-loss drugs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The drug combination showed a numerical improvement in delaying signs that patients’ cancer worsened compared with the standard therapy, but it wasn’t enough to be considered statistically significant, AstraZeneca said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“That it was a ‘savior’ diagnosis for too many kids whose parents wanted a medical reason to drug their children, or to explain their kids’ bad behavior.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Novo Nordisk, the Danish drug giant behind Ozempic, is streamlining its corporate culture and shortening its name as it tries to better compete in the market for weight-loss drugs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Big Pharma firms have cut license deals worth tens of billions of dollars for cancer drugs invented in China.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Food and Drug Administration has adopted these modern methods to approve new drugs for other slow-progressing diseases, including Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis and metabolic liver disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Jones described her years taking the chemotherapy drugs as "horrendous".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The Ebola experiments were not a success in the sense that the drugs had no effect on the virus.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Had Raynella drugged him and staged an accident?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
"He arrived with brain trauma, sedated, drugged, breathing with a ventilator," Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2025
Thousands wrote letters to suggest ways of capturing Goldie, including "get a gun that shoots a net" and "use archers to fire drugged meat into the air".
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
Mr. Olson was working at Fort Detrick and was unwittingly drugged with LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment that ended with him falling to his death from a New York hotel window.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
With her brown bobbed haircut and round sunglasses, Pelicot has become an international feminist symbol, inspiring a change to French rape laws and a public reckoning with the problem of drugging women.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
If there is widespread dog drugging, I certainly didn’t find that or hear about it, and I asked some questions along those lines.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
This new information could prove to be especially useful to drug developers hoping to create a new cancer treatment by drugging this interaction.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023
Masterson’s lawyer, Philip Cohen, told jurors in his opening statement this week that “there is no drugging charge,” The A.P. reported.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
That, says the intellectual, is well enough for the artist, but what of the individuals to whom art can only be at best a keen stimulus, at worst a drugging pleasure?
From Sanine by Percy Pinkerton
