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medicine

[med-uh-sin, med-suhn] / ˈmɛd ə sɪn, ˈmɛd sən /


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The Nobel season opens Monday with the medicine prize, which experts say could go to research into the GLP-1 appetite-regulating hormone behind weight-loss drugs like Ozempic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

In May, trustee Mark Stevens and his wife, Mary, gave $200 million, one of the largest gifts in the university’s history, to spread the technology across fields from medicine to the arts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

"But when I met my oncologist I realised how ignorant I was and what gargantuan strides medicine has made recently."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Yet genomic technologies have transformed disease research and made contributions to clinical medicine, particularly oncology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

James Donovan, who negotiated the Abel-Powers trade, convinced Fidel Castro in December 1962 to release the prisoners in exchange for a shipment of food and medicine worth $53 million.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Health officials exempted rare disease drugs and other medicines based on comments received from the public, they said in a Federal Register document released Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Mobile medical units carrying oxygen, nebulisers, suction equipment, malaria tests and medicines visited more than 20 affected villages.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

"But several lifesaving supply lines in WHO's Aden warehouse are already at zero stock, including trauma kits and essential medicines," Heinzelmann said, appealing for more funding.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Barber and Sil caution that resurrected antimicrobial peptides are unlikely to become new medicines anytime soon.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

She lived alone beyond the orchard, gathering herbs and other growing things and selling the medicines, ointments, and dyes she made from them.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

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

"Fill high the bowl, benumb His aching sense With medicined sleep."—O awful in Thy woe!

From The Christian Year by John Keble

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 he 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 — Volume 08 by Clara Bell

But the slave-girl medicined herself and became well; and she kept what remained of the poison and sold it to those who asked for it.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Thus, by the secret hand of Thy medicining was my swelling abated, and the troubled and bedimmed eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day healed.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey

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

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

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




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