The last remaining antibiotics used to treat gonorrhoea (cefixime and ceftriaxone) in England and Wales are becoming less effective. But recent changes in prescribing practice, based on new recommendations that challenge previous public health thinking, seem to have delayed or reversed this...
Healthy patients without attention deficit disorder (ADD) should not be prescribed cognitive enhancement medications, according to an article published in CMAJ. People are sometimes prescribed stimulants (such as methylphenidate and dextroamphetamine) for cognitive enhancement, which is...
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS), in collaboration with the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) and the American Medical Association (AMA) has developed a "Tip Sheet for Prescribing Controlled Substances in Long Term Care." The document, distributed to AGS, AMDA, and AMA members...
Despite states' warnings that they will face massive budget cuts without help from Washington, Congress has not yet moved to provide $24.2 billion in additional Medicaid funding that many statehouses had anticipated would be included in a failed June bill, American Medical News reports...
The Baltimore Sun reports: "[P]harmaceutical companies that make … prescription drugs are also looking over the doctor's shoulder, keeping track of how many prescriptions for whose drugs the individual physician is writing." The data is used to hone marketing pitches to individual physicians...