A study that the institute released in March found that about 3 percent of California workers' compensation doctors were responsible for writing more than half of the prescriptions for Schedule II ...

TEXARKANA, Ark. (KSLA) - A doctor from Texarkana has been sentenced to federal prison for writing unnecessary prescriptions. The Department of Justice (DOJ) says Dr. Lonnie Parker, 59, will spend ...

In the context of medical prescriptions, Breyer notes, "it is the fact that the doctor issued an unauthorized prescription that renders his or her conduct wrongful, not the fact of the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A former Baton Rouge doctor has been sentenced after evidence at trial revealed he wrote “medically unnecessary” prescriptions for large amounts of opioids ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — A Pinellas County doctor is in jail for allegedly selling and writing more than 550 fake prescriptions for opioids. On top of that, when police served a search warrant at ...

This story was produced in partnership with KFF Health News. The result is a pilot effort called the Clean Power Prescription program. The initiative aims to help roughly 80 patients with complex ...

Physicians have explained why their writing on prescription notes is mostly ineligible for readers, clarifying that bad handwriting isn’t peculiar to doctors alone. Though they acknowledged that ...

Speaking to Asianet, the doctor said "I write my prescriptions in block letters. The other doctors write illegibly because maybe they are busy. I try my best to write prescriptions legibly even ...

Your doctor might also write a prescription for an OTC medicine so that it's covered by your health insurance. You'll need to check the rules for your plan -- your copay and your flexible spending ...

Then they realized the solar panels on... Why these doctors started writing medical 'prescriptions' for solar power Anna Goldman, a primary care physician at Boston Medical Center, got tired of ...