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The Prescrire Awards for 2014

The Prescrire Drug Awards for 2014

The Prescrire Drug Awards for 2014
34 years of Prescrire Awards

Pilule d'Or Prescrire
  Pilule d'Or/Golden Pill 1981-2014

The 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.

2014 (Prescrire Int n° 158)
ORPHACOL° (cholic acid)
2007 (Prescrire Int n° 94) CARBAGLU° (carglumic acid) (a second look) 
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 )
No "Golden Pill" was awarded in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 or 2013.
1- Drug no longer on the market in France.

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"The Prescrire Awards 2014" Prescrire Int 2015; 24 (158): 74-79. (pdf, free)