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ethical drug

NOUN
patent medicine
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In the ethical drug sector, few companies can boast of fruitful R&D breakthroughs on blockbuster drugs these past five years. 

From Forbes • Apr. 19, 2011

Brush soon horrified traditionalists by ordering Anacin, which had been marketed as an ethical drug, to be put on sale at drugstore counters.

From Time Magazine Archive

To keep making new discoveries, the ethical drug industry spends proportionately more on research than any U.S. industry save electronics�an average 7% of its sales v. about 1% for other industries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two years ago the ethical drug stocks reached their top, followed within a few months by such groups as agricultural machinery, mining and smelting, distillers, lead and zinc, and textiles.

From Time Magazine Archive

As an ethical drug company, i.e., prescription products mainly, Mead Johnson's first concern was to maintain the good will of doctors who prescribe most of its products.

From Time Magazine Archive