medicine
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"As for help from the government, there hasn't been any -- no tents, no medicine, no food, no drinking water, nothing," said Junaidin.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Combining protection against the three diseases has been considered a miracle of modern medicine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
"The sex differences observed in OPA1 responses and obesity susceptibility may help inform the development of obesity treatments that take them into account, as well as future personalized medicine approaches."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
We’re bringing together the most influential voices across government, industry, venture capital and public health for high-level networking and vital cross-sector conversations on the urgent issues reshaping medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
He’d become a doctor not because he enjoyed medicine but because he didn’t find medical school terribly difficult.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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"There's a quietness about our house now it's not chaos and beeping machines and medicines lined up along the counter and fear."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The researchers also found that these approaches can increase weight loss when paired with certain GLP-1-based weight loss medicines.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Some cosmetics, medicines and supplements contain gelatin, animal fats, alcohol or other ingredients whose origins matter to observant consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
People need their medicines and treatments no matter what the economy or the AI build-out is doing, so demand and cash flows remain relatively constant even when the economy slows down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Her husband, an Aragonese merchant by whom she had two children, spent half the value of his store on medicines and pastimes in an attempt to alleviate her terror.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The hope-inspiring ministry of Ronald's mother, first and engrossing study, and ceaseless occupation next, had effectually medicined his growing melancholy.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
This was grievous to Gharib who commanded the hurt to be medicined and turning to his Chief Officers, asked them what they counselled.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 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
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
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
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
Certainly, now you see that all your Doctoring and medicining hath been to some purpose, and now you feel also that all herbs were made for some good effects.
From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh
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
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
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
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