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45 years of Prescrire's "Pilule d'Or"

45 years of Prescrire's "Pilule d'Or"

Pilule d'Or Prescrire
Pilule d'Or/Golden Pill
1981-2025

Prescrire's Pilule d'Or (Golden Pill) has been granted since 1981 to drugs that constitute a major therapeutic advance in a particularly poorly served field.
 
2024 (Prescrire Int n° 270)
 FEXINIDAZOLE WINTHROP° (fexinidazole)
2021 (Prescrire Int n° 235)
 COMIRNATY° (tozinameran) and  SPIKEVAX° (elasomeran)
2020 (Prescrire Int n° 224)
 ERVEBO°  (Ebola vaccine rVSV-Zebov)
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, from 2015 to 2019, nor for 2022, 2023 nor 2025.
1- Drug no longer on the market in France.


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