The truth is, the world of medicine has long been home to its own secret language – shorthand acronyms and slang that doctors ...

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The U.S. is rare among Western nations because it allows pharmaceutical advertising. But a new effort aims to stop it. A bill ...

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In Part 1 of a two-part series on dealing with the high price of prescription drugs, a father explains the strategies he used ...

Accused of using confidential patient data to illegally write prescriptions, a Pittsburgh-area doctor is now behind bars after a months-long investigation. Charles Chandler is facing several ...

A doctor’s prescription should spell out how to take medicines, its frequency and timing, in the language a patient speaks instead of only writing abbreviations in English, several doctors said at a ...

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 ...

A New Hampshire doctor has pleaded guilty to writing unnecessary prescriptions in exchange for cash, federal prosecutors in Vermont announced. Adnan S. Khan, M.D., 48, of Grantham, orchestrated ...

In Karnataka’s Chitrdurga, an orthopaedics doctor named Sanjay Raghavendra wrote the entire prescription for his patient in Kannada. His prescription went viral on social media and he received ...

Kannada Development Authority requested the Karnataka government to mandate writing doctor prescriptions at government hospitals in the local language instead of English. KDA said this would help ...

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 the ...