How to Use new drug in a Sentence

new drug

noun
  • The deaths are linked to a new drug that challenges the laws of time.
    Starr Savoy, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • It’s set in New Orleans, where there’s a new drug on the street.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • But states have been slow to catch up with these new drug products.
    Eric Berger, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Last year, the FDA approved the first new drug for the Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
  • That's how much Aduhelm, a new drug to treat Alzheimer's disease, costs per year.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 17 Nov. 2021
  • In a last-ditch effort, the Davis team got Irvin a new drug called olorofim.
    Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
  • Nor does that cover the question of which new drugs might fall by the wayside.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The pharmaceutical giant hopes the new drug will be ready by the end of the year.
    Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The new drug, known as EDP-938, works by preventing the virus from making copies of itself in the body.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Even when scientists super-dosed the mice with the new drug, the rodents seemed to do just fine.
    Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2022
  • By law, Medicare pays doctors 103% of the price of a new drug covered by Part B.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Nico's probably the new drug lord of Rio, all that money that was left for him.
    Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 18 June 2021
  • This isn’t the first time that a new drug has threatened to break the national healthcare bank.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • That decision is a boon to Clear Creek, which began working on ideas for the new drug in the spring of 2021.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The surge comes amid a shortage of a new drug meant to prevent RSV infection.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • My doctor said a new drug called Ofev might be helpful.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The last time there was this much hype over a new drug was for Viagra, which was approved in 1998.
    Emma Court, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Bringing a new drug to patients can take more than 10 years.
    Eva Temkin, STAT, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The approval of the new drug, teplizumab, follows a study published in 2019 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
    Theresa Sullivan Barger, Hartford Courant, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The new drug aims to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s by removing that protein.
    Tom Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • But treatment of the disease has been stuck for years, and the FDA had not approved a new drug to treat this disease since 2003.
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 20 July 2021
  • With the new drug on the horizon, Texas is gearing up for their vaccine response.
    Shelby Stewart, Chron, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Aduhelm is the first new drug for Alzheimer’s approved since 2003 and is expected to be a blockbuster.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
  • The chances of a new drug being eventually approved by the FDA are just 10 to 15%.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • California, meet the new drug war, same as the old drug war in too many troubling ways.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The results are part of a Phase 1 clinical trial, which look at the safety of a new drug.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Lilly said the contract for its new drug — bebtelovimab — is worth at least $720 million.
    NBC News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Note that Biogen’s Aduhelm is the first new drug being approved for Alzheimer’s in the last twenty years.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • Crime runs rampant, a new drug just hit the streets, and mob violence dominates the headlines.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Merrell had a lot riding on this new drug, and Joseph Murray was growing impatient.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024

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