prescriptions

A new report from the CDC shows that more patients are getting prescriptions for exercise from their doctors.

America’s addiction to prescription drugs is fed via the Internet, not just through prescriptions signed by a doctor.

(MedPage Today) -- Guidelines focused on curbing the overuse of antibiotics can indeed lower the number of prescriptions written for them, Canadian researchers have found.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- When Samantha Lowe's 12-year-old Labrador retriever needed anti-inflammatories to ease her arthritis, she found herself facing the same question humans face when it comes to prescriptions: Name-brand drug, or generic?...

NEW YORKERS are swallowing a bitter pill - 20% of them skipped doctor appointments and didn't buy prescriptions last year to save cash.

(University at Buffalo) If you want to know how people become addicted and why they keep using drugs, ask the people who are addicted.

Thirty-one of 75 patients hospitalized for opioid detoxification told University at Buffalo physicians they first got hooked on drugs legitimately prescribed for pain.

It seemed like a relatively simple process: When you get sick, first call your primary-care doctor. Second, visit said doctor.

Third, follow doctor's orders: Fill prescriptions, take to bed, whatever. Fourth, get better.

If you’ve ever been told that a certain prescription you need isn’t covered by your Medicare drug plan, you know it can be frustrating and costly to pay for it yourself.

But you may not have to.

GALVESTON, Texas (MedPage Today) -- Only a small fraction of released prisoners with HIV renew their medication prescriptions in time to avoid interruption of treatment, researchers here said.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The push for paperless prescriptions is about to get a boost: Starting in January, doctors who e-prescribe can get bonus pay from Medicare....