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prescribe

[pri-skrahyb] / prɪˈskraɪb /


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“I don’t prescribe these medications. We have no long-term clinical data.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

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

Last year, the company initiated the pilot to prescribe refills in Utah through a “regulatory sandbox” program that temporarily exempts Doctronic from certain state laws so its system can be tested.

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

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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