Sentences with word «overprescription»

The vendors usually complied with the test results, reducing overprescription of malaria drugs by 73 %.

Essex County Department of Social Services Commissioner John O'Neill called doctor overprescription the «elephant in the room.»

«There's still overprescription of antidepressants and woefully inadequate provision of psychotherapies.»

Unfortunately, the medical industry reaches for easy solutions to try and help people coping with depressive / mood disorders, which has resulted in epidemic overprescription of SSRIs and other anti-depressant medications.

So if you didn't speak up from your position of expert when information surfaced about the wild rates of overprescription of antibiotics for common colds and earaches, then I'd say the blame is being somewhat wrongly placed on the parents today.

«Legitimate concerns about pain management have led to an overprescription of powerful opioids over the past several years,» said Burstein.

Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Gillibrand said she's heard too many parents tell her how they have lost their children to opioid addiction, which began with an overprescription of painkillers like Percocet or OxyContin.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is urging the Senate to pass a bipartisan bill aimed at reducing the overprescription of opioids for acute pain following medical conditions like surgery or the setting of a broken bone.

But now a huge new study suggests that, along its enormous benefits, the rollout of RDTs has had some unintended — and undesirable — consequences: overprescription of antibiotics, which can exacerbate the rapid rise in antibiotic - resistant infections.

Data collected in 1999 by psychologist Gretchen LeFever, then at Eastern Virginia Medical School, point to geographical pockets of overprescription.

One of the main issues is overprescription of antibiotics, and now a new test developed by scientists at Caltech could help doctors quickly prescribe the best type of antibiotic to fight a particular infection.

Overprescription and use of antibiotics is leading us down a terrifying path, towards a world where our best drugs simply don't work and even the most basic of medical procedures becomes deadly again.

The new test takes aim at one particular root of the problem: overprescription.

Overprescription and overuse of drugs during the last few decades has led to bacteria that have evolved resistance to them.

Dozens of states are already looking into the overprescription of opioids, and a multistate investigation is demanding information from the manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioid drugs in an attempt to determine whether the companies were engaged in any unlawful practices in the marketing and distribution of these drugs.

Overuse and overprescription of antibiotics have led to the development of extraordinarily dangerous, antibiotic - resistant bacteria.

How history treats «Civil War» is anyone's guess, but right now it feels like an overprescription for a world staving off superhero fatigue.