(TNS) -- Physicians, dentists and other clinicians start exclusively using electronic prescribing systems Sunday as New York begins sweeping paper pads out of day-to-day circulation. Gov. Andrew M.

NEW YORK – Psychologists may soon be able to write out more than their patient's problems on those little notepads. A statute in New Mexico that allows licensed doctors of psychology who have passed ...

Background: The frequency of drug prescription errors is high. Excluding errors in decision making, the remaining are mainly due to order ambiguity, non standard nomenclature and writing illegibility.

MedEfficient developed software that gives doctors the capability to write electronic prescriptions that can then be faxed, printed or e-mailed to patients or directly to pharmacies. It also ...

(CNN) — Bad cholesterol, depression, high blood pressure; these are all conditions that often prompt a trip to the pharmacy. But now, physicians are administering a different treatment entirely: ...

Prescription_writing The researchers found that prescription writing errors were significantly reduced in the pharmacist education group (P HealthDay News — Pharmacist feedback and education is ...

HARRISBURG, PA (WPMT)The State Attorney General’s Office files new charges against a mid-state doctor, who in just six months allegedly prescribed 102,000 oxycodone pills to people not under his care ...

Optometrists need the ability to write prescriptions for additional drugs Forty states allow optometrists to write prescriptions for oral glaucoma medicine Don%27t let a small number of lawmakers keep ...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. After the death of her son three years ago, novelist Lee Smith was so devastated that she forgot how to drive to the grocery store and to the school where she had taught for 20 ...

More health professionals are prescribing the outdoors as part of a healthy lifestyle. Here’s how to write your own—and how to get kids on board. When Melissa Lem was a child, green spaces were an ...