medicine
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The French drugmaker is moving to fill its medicine pipeline to prepare for the looming patent expiration of its bestselling product, Dupixent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Those who suspect they have Lewy body dementia symptoms should contact a neurologist or a clinician trained in either geriatric medicine or geriatric psychiatry for an evaluation, Vossel said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Sales came in better than forecast, with lung-cancer drug Tagrisso and rare-disease medicine Ultomiris both outperforming expectations, while a higher margin helped core earnings per share exceed estimates, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
She said: "I remember thinking, something's not right here. All of my friends and people I know that wanted to do medicine weren't getting the grades that they got in their prelims."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
‘I’ve still got some yarrow leaves,’ he said, fumbling for his medicine pouch with his free hand.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Some are likely to have come from people using medicines such as insulin, where patients are often given sharps bins and advice on disposal.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The company added that its focus remains on “high-impact, transformational medicines to treat life-threatening diseases.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Market conditions in Germany proved more challenging than the company anticipated, while stronger volume demand for biosimilars—lower-priced versions of biologic medicines made from living organisms—caused supply constraints in Europe and international markets, Sandoz said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The biopharma is moving quickly to bring new medicines to market faster.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Some men were even unfriendly, and uncooperative about their medicines, having managed to blur the distinction between the generals and the nurses.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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They are gathered together as patients in a hospital are gathered, that their sickness may be medicined and their wounds dressed.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren
He followed in her wake without her knowing it, and made for his own lodging where he dressed his wounds and medicined himself till he was whole.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
He was flattered and pleased at being taken seriously and bidden to think in this straightforward, manly fashion; it unstrung his reserve and medicined to his wounded self-respect.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
For two long weeks had he to be abed, he, who, as he himself told, had never to this day needed any healing but such as the leech who medicined his beasts could give him.
From Margery — Complete by Georg Ebers
The active employment, the all-engrossing interest which would have medicined his unslumbering sorrow, were remedial agents denied by his father's unwise decree.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
And she Shall know no more its tender, sweet caress, Soft medicining woe.
From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier
Certainly, now you see that all your Doctoring and medicining hath been to some purpose, and now you feel also that all herbs were made for some good effects.
From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh
A great great sin plots in the house this day; Too strong for the faithful, beyond medicining … And help stands far away.
From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray
As the night struggles slowly into day so sickness climbs stealthily into health, and nature has a system of medicining her ailments which might only be thwarted by the ministrations of a mere doctor.
From Mary, Mary by Padraic Colum
Go thou thy way, sorrowful and suffering soul, alone; and if thy own heart bleeds, strive thou to soothe its pangs, by medicining the wounds and healing the hurts of another.
From What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson
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