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36 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 Prescrire
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
2016 (Prescrire Int n° 180)
 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 )
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.

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"The Prescrire Awards 2016" Prescrire Int 2017: 26 (180) 79-83. (pdf, free)