drugs

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The drug industry has been trying for years to develop tricks to shuttle the drugs that treat Alzheimer’s disease through the body’s protective brain-blood barrier, which blocks 99% of a dose from reaching the brain.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Because existing drugs haven’t been able to target this protein, treatment for pancreatic cancer has primarily relied on toxic drugs that act more like blunt instruments than precise tools.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

There is also a question as to whether the boats are actually carrying drugs at all.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

Ireland’s economy was among the fastest growing in the world last year, expanding by 12.4% as exports of weight-loss drugs to the U.S. boomed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

When the M. leprae bacteria became resistant to dapsone in the 1960s, scientists developed a new multidrug regimen, which included dapsone alongside other drugs.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly