When the agency that runs Medicare announced last week that it would take action against doctors who prescribe abusively in its massive drug program – perhaps banning them – it raised an interesting ...

Standard definitions of fever do not fit the nursing home population well and could be creating a picture of antibiotic prescribing practices in these settings that is too negative, according to ...

An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will develop a framework to evaluate existing clinical practice guidelines for prescribing ...

In October 1957, a top executive from Pfizer had some cautionary words at an annual meeting of U.S. drug manufacturers. In a sense, the industry had performed too well. Antibiotics had been so ...