new drug

noun

: a drug that has not been declared safe and effective by qualified experts under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the label and that may be a new chemical formula or an established drug prescribed for use in a new way

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The company hopes that this new drug will offer effective pain relief while reducing the risk of dependency and misuse. —

Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025 The trials are using two fairly new drugs—bedaquiline and delamanid. —

Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2025 In an effort to improve birth rates, new drugs, with their attendant side effects, have been added to the standard protocols in the decades since 1978, when the first IVF baby was born. —

Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025 Novo’s new drug, amycretin, mimics a hormone produced by the pancreas called amylin, in addition to the GLP-1 hormone that Ozempic and Wegovy copy. —

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