Since its inception in 1981, Prescrire's Pilule d'Or (Golden Pill) has been awarded just 15 times.
Pilule d'Or/Golden Pill
1981-2016
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
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2016 (Prescrire Int n° 180)
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NOT AWARDED
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2014 (Prescrire Int n° 157)
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ORPHACOL° (cholic acid)
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2007 (Prescrire Int n° 94) |
CARBAGLU° (carglumic acid) |
2006 (Prescrire Int n° 88) |
ORFADIN° (nitisinone) |
1998 (Prescrire Int n° 40)
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CRIXIVAN° (indinavir) |
1996 (Prescrire Int n° 28)
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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)
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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 )
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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. |
1- Drug no longer on the market in France. |
©Prescrire February 2017
"The Prescrire Awards 2016" Prescrire Int 2017: 26 (180) 79-83. (pdf, free)