wonder drug

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But while that 1989 attack focused attention on gun control, it also resulted in a court case that embroiled one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical companies — and pointed suspicion at a new “wonder drug” antidepressant.

From Washington Post

She said she will take a "wonder drug".

From BBC

The evidence that nothing much has changed arrived just this week, with a notice from the Department of Health and Human Services rejecting a petition for a price cut on Xtandi, a wonder drug for prostate cancer that was developed with public funding at UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times

NuLife, as their company is soon branded, calls to mind the wonder drug that wards off “morbid” shame in Jonathan Franzen’s “The Corrections,” except bliss is administered by “transcranial magnetic stimulation,” or sometimes through an anesthetizing, hands-on voodoo routine called Synthesis, at which Orson is especially gifted.

From New York Times

It included six rounds of chemotherapy, 15 sessions of daily radiotherapy, a year of targeted therapy of the wonder drug Herceptin, 18 months of injections into my stomach of Zoladex; multiple breast operations, reconstructions and surgery to remove my ovaries.

From BBC