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
  • Of course, these new drugs aren’t likely to come cheap.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • Salix says that the new drug will be available in the U.S. in the third quarter of 2018.
    — Eli Blumenthal, USA TODAY, 8 May 2018
  • As the weight loss boom slims down, the telehealth firm is eyeing new drugs to fill the gap.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • That’s more than the percentage of warnings found in a 2017 study of new drugs.
    — John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2019
  • 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
  • Doctors debate whether these new drugs will be worth the cost.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • That is about half the average cost of bringing a new drug all the way to market.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Poison specialists are among the first to hear about the new drugs on the market and their effects.
    — Wendy Stephen, Ph.d., miamiherald, 8 May 2018
  • There were brief periods of relief, when a new drug seemed to work.
    — Jenny Aurthur, Longreads, 4 May 2018
  • 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
  • This process is typical for new drugs, but has not been part of the process for seasonal updates to vaccines like the flu shot.
    — Sean Conlon,brian Evans, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Our response to drugs and vaccines is modulated by our genomics and cells, and discovery of new drugs has been enhanced by gene variants and by AI.
    — Dr. Eric Topol, Time, 8 May 2025

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