Prescribing

Physicians’ scores on a general knowledge exam were tied to inappropriate prescribing for seniors … Two senior leaders leave FDA over U.S. vaccine decision-making … More states to roll out digital...

More prescriptions do not necessarily mean better health outcomes. Deprescribing, which is the planned and supervised process of intentionally stopping a medication or reducing its dose, is a critically...

The new guidelines cover how to choose appropriate patients, safely scale up to a full dose, monitor side effects and assess effectiveness. The authors also address when to stop therapy and what patients...

Two common choices for treating high blood pressure do a good job of preventing related cardiovascular events. But one drug class is less associated with swelling, cough, pancreas inflammation and gastrointestinal...

A one-day virtual symposium will explore and debate controversial topics in the long-term and post-acute care settings on Aug. 27.

Neurologists are very aware of Biogen’s newly approved Alzheimer’s drug, but few have prescribed it so far, a real-time study of the brand’s market launch has found.

An attempt to encourage reduced use of anticholinergics failed to win the attention of physicians and patients, according to a new study.

“It is our responsibility to resist the urge to prescribe a potentially dangerous and ineffective medication that is untested in our population, even if it has FDA approval,” the LTC physician’s...

Rates have remained low throughout the pandemic, and appear to be the consequence of measures to curb COVID-19 transmission. The same public health strategies could be used to help reduce antibiotic overprescribing...

Potentially inappropriate prescribing is significantly associated with a range of health-related and system-related outcomes, according to a recent meta-analysis.