How to Use new drug in a Sentence

new drug

noun
  • He was switched to a new drug, which didn't work.
    — Kat McGowan, NPR, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Further, new drugs have emerged that do not have the same risks.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2018
  • But states have been slow to catch up with these new drug products.
    — Eric Berger, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The deaths are linked to a new drug that challenges the laws of time.
    — Starr Savoy, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • By then, the two new drugs were nearing the market.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Doctors debate whether these new drugs will be worth the cost.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018
  • That an unnamed new drug can bring patients back from the dead.
    — Jon Christian, Futurism, 13 May 2026
  • Not through new drugs or breakthrough science.
    — Joe Kiani, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Read more about this new drug and the fight to treat withdrawal from it.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 26 June 2026
  • Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 22 Mar. 2026
  • As the weight loss boom slims down, the telehealth firm is eyeing new drugs to fill the gap.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2025
  • There were brief periods of relief, when a new drug seemed to work.
    — Jenny Aurthur, Longreads, 4 May 2018
  • In all of last year, the lab identified 27 new drugs.
    — CNN Money, 13 May 2026
  • Nor does that cover the question of which new drugs might fall by the wayside.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • There is also hope of breakthroughs to help create new drugs.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • It’s set in New Orleans, where there’s a new drug on the street.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • That effort helped get two new drugs (lecanemab and donanemab) on the market.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
  • This new drug has been a complete 180-degree switch from chemo.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
  • That's how much Aduhelm, a new drug to treat Alzheimer's disease, costs per year.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 17 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
  • In a last-ditch effort, the Davis team got Irvin a new drug called olorofim.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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 agency also added 644 new drug users to its database last year.
    — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • And thus launched Pao’s efforts to find a new drug to treat and prevent some types of kidney stones.
    — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • With the new drug on the horizon, Texas is gearing up for their vaccine response.
    — Shelby Stewart, Chron, 19 Nov. 2020
  • China is leading the world in clinical trials for new drugs.
    — Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2026

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