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prescribe

[pri-skrahyb] / prɪˈskraɪb /


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The guidelines prescribe LDL goals based on scan scores.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The BBC has spoken to a number of GPs who said they had made the "difficult decision" to prescribe antidepressants to under-18s with serious mental health problems on occasion.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 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

While those issues have improved, many physicians still hesitate to prescribe them.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 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




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