painkiller
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Last year, Lilly acquired SiteOne Therapeutics for $1 billion, in turn assuming the rights to its experimental non-opioid painkiller, STC-004.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
A decade of loyalty card data across 211 million transactions in an unnamed chain of high street stores in England found paracetamol was the most common painkiller bought alongside tampons and sanitary towels.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
If, say, you’ve had a stomach ulcer, the bot would recommend a painkiller that’s easy on the gut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
He previously wrote about Samsung from Seoul, but in prior stints at the Journal's New York, Atlanta and Chicago offices, he covered Wall Street's biggest buyers, painkiller addiction, airlines and food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
If Henry had been suffering from poison ivy, hay fever, rheumatism, pinkeye, we would have been in luck but the only painkiller they had was Excedrin.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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"It must have been so painful. I wasn't given painkillers or anything like that, " she added.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
In Pasadena, volunteers at the restaurant Chamo Venezuelan Cuisine collected supplies, issuing a special plea for bandages, gauze, painkillers and other over-the-counter medicines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The deal includes 4E’s pipeline of oral MNK inhibitors, an emerging class of non-opioid painkillers that target a biological pathway within a patient’s nerve endings to stop the generation of pain signals.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
After bed rest and painkillers, McClain seemed to get reckless, the people who knew him said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
I had no money to buy painkillers or new clothes.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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