prescribe

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However, Gloucestershire GP Tom Sutherland said "skyrocketing demand" for young people's mental health services meant some doctors felt forced to prescribe medication outside of those guidelines.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Still in its first phase, Doctronic’s AI can prescribe refills of 190 medications across nine categories of medicines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

When we prescribe these drugs to patients whose endogenous GLP-1 system is functioning normally, we are not filling a deficit.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

Doctors generally prescribe the drug only when other options have failed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

And third, genes had to explain development: How could individual units of instruction prescribe the code to create a mature organism out of an embryo?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee