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[druhg] / drʌg /




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Mounjaro, the same drug, but approved for Type 2 diabetes, brought in $9.9 billion in revenue, against a FactSet estimate of $8.9 billion.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Named after a character from “Lord of the Rings,” Earendil develops AI for drug discovery and development.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

If a patented drug is listed by the U.S. government as in short supply, compounders can legally produce it.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

The drug company reaped a temporary windfall during the pandemic with both the most successful Covid vaccine and antiviral drug.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Riddick now heads a drug prevention program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Lilly now has two GLP-1 drugs for weight loss — Zepbound and the new GLP-1 pill Foundayo — and two more in the works.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Eli Lilly LLY -0.51%decrease; down pointing triangle reported higher net income and revenue in the recent quarter, fueled by continued surging demand for its GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Lilly also had its own direct-to-consumer platform in the U.S., the world’s biggest market, where Americans were increasingly using credit cards or plunking down cash for weight-loss drugs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Sales of biosimilar drugs jumped 22% at constant currency, while those of generic drugs were up 1%, recovering from a decline in the first quarter caused by headwinds in Sandoz’s anti-infective business.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

If the first round of antibiotics didn’t cure a patient, a retreatment with the same drugs, plus one, was prescribed.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

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

Clara, locked in her house, surrounded by the servants who took care of her, with Ferula as her guard, and drugged by Dr. Cuevas, did not attend.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

Defense attorney Philip Cohen made clear to jurors that ”there is no drugging charge.”

From Seattle Times Jun. 1, 2023

Dr. Howe examined the book of prescriptions, and said that there was less drugging than he supposed there would be.

From To Cuba and Back by Dana, Richard Henry




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