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37 years of Prescrire Awards

Since its inception in 1981, Prescrire's Pilule d'Or (Golden Pill) has been awarded just 15 times.

Pilule d'Or/Golden Pill 1981-2017 Prescrire's Pilule d'Or (Golden Pill) has been granted since 1981 to drugs that constitute a major therapeutic advance in a field in which no treatment was previously available
2017 (Prescrire Int n° 191)	(not awarded)
2014 (Prescrire Int n° 157)	ORPHACOL° (cholic acid)
2007 (Prescrire Int n° 94)	CARBAGLU° (carglumic acid)
2006 (Prescrire Int n° 88)	ORFADIN° (nitisinone)
1998 (Prescrire Int n° 40)	CRIXIVAN° (indinavir)
1996 (Prescrire Int n° 28)	DIGIDOT° (digoxin-specific antibody ) (1)
1992 (Prescrire Int n° 4)	SURFEXO° (pulmonary surfactant ) (1)
1989 (Rev Prescrire n° 92)	EPREX° (epoetin alfa) • MECTIZAN° (ivermectin)
1988 (Rev Prescrire n° 81)	LARIAM° (mefloquine) • RETROVIR° (zidovudine)
1987 (Rev Prescrire n° 71)	LUTRELEF° (gonadorelin) • DECAPEPTYL° (triptorelin)
1986 (Rev Prescrire n° 61)	ZOVIRAX° IV and tablets (aciclovir)
1983 (Rev Prescrire n° 31)	LOPRIL° (captopril)
1981 (Rev Prescrire n° 10)	VACCIN HEVAC B° (hepatitis B vaccine) (1)
No "Golden Pill" was awarded for 1982, 1984, 1985, 1990, 1991, from 1993 to 1995, for 1997, from 1999 to 2005, from 2008 to 2013, and for 2015 and 2016.
1- Drug no longer on the market in France.