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[druhg] / drʌg /




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Novo Nordisk stock jumped higher on Wednesday as the Danish drugmaker lifted its guidance on strong uptake of its weight-loss drug pill that was launched this year.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Scientists already use individual nanoparticles in technologies involving drug delivery, energy storage, computing, and sensors.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Vertex Pharmaceuticals used roughly 50 AI companies to comb through its data set of 10,000 drug compounds, but none generated a working drug.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says the company can replicate its past success as it leads a renewed push into the weight-loss drug market.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

In 1855, when he was nine, the family moved to Chicago, where his father established a successful wholesale drug business.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

McKinsey senior partner Alex Devereson, who focuses on AI in drug development, said the technology can design new experimental medicines quicker than before, but that doesn’t mean it is coming up with workable drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

There is no approved vaccine but the World Health Organisation said experts have recommended adding two new candidate drugs to an ongoing clinical trial.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

The cost of medical care and prescription drugs is increasing, and healthcare spending has largely outpaced inflation over the last 15 years, according to new research from the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale University.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Inflation and economic pressure have led more Americans to eat at home or turn to fast food for a cheaper option, while the rise of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic has curbed customers’ appetites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Two days later, Kanei and Moriba returned with the corporal, some soldiers, and civilians who carried the bundles of food, drugs, and ammunition back to base.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

They said the women opted to join the parties and trips and that there wasn’t evidence that the brothers had drugged the women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

"He arrived with brain trauma, sedated, drugged, breathing with a ventilator," Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 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

Phillip Cohen, one of Masterson’s defense attorneys, has repeatedly noted that prosecutors have zero forensic evidence to prove the victims were drugged.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2023

Like the prisoner she was, she lived on bread and water, though she was sure the water must be drugged.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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 attorney, Philip Cohen, said in the defense opening statement Monday that those assertions are all the prosecution has, and he told jurors, “there is no drugging charge in this case.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

Those medical men who have made the most diligent study of health and disease assert as their deliberate opinion that excessive professional drugging has been decidedly destructive of human life.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen


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