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[druhg] / drʌg /




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To determine how the drug acted so quickly, the team analyzed gene activity in brain cells before and after treatment.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

The researchers also discovered that many of the resulting brain and behavioral effects could be improved rapidly in adulthood, although only temporarily, with a single dose of the immune-suppressing drug rapamycin.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

Generics make up 90% of all U.S. prescriptions and have kept down prescription drug prices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

He has turned Regeneron into one of the world’s most valuable drug companies, with a market cap of roughly $70 billion, by repeatedly pioneering technologies that opened up entirely new classes of blockbuster drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

“That it was a ‘savior’ diagnosis for too many kids whose parents wanted a medical reason to drug their children, or to explain their kids’ bad behavior.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The findings suggest that oral GLP-1 drugs may influence more than physical hunger.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

These compounds differ from larger peptide medications such as semaglutide, which is used in well-known drugs including Ozempic, Wegovy, and Rybelsus.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

Friday's recommendations wrapped a two-day meeting in which the advisory committee considered whether to greenlight adding seven total peptides to the US compounding list, which allows facilities to create custom drugs.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

“There is not the sort of substantive safety data for these drugs that FDA would normally require,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

All^ of Gene Johnson’s infected monkeys died no matter what drugs they were given.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

I wonder at first, still drugged with sleep.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

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

About half the complaints that California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform receives about inappropriate drugging of residents involve Depakote, said Anthony Chicotel, the group’s top lawyer.

From New York Times Sep. 11, 2021

The list of specifics has been reduced to a very brief catalogue, and the delusion which had exaggerated the power of drugging for so many generations has been tempered down by sound and systematic observation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various




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