31.   The pharmaceutical companies say the sales visits and discussions with doctors are essential for transmitting the most recent scientific information on how medicines should be prescribed.

32.   They would compensate the managed-care company for asking physicians to choose Bristol-Myers products when prescribing medicine in several therapeutic categories.

33.   Under the proposed arrangement, Foundation Health would instruct doctors to select Squibb drugs when prescribing medicine for patients in five therapeutic categories.

34.   At the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, known for its ground-breaking organ transplants, psychiatrists prescribe herbal medicines to help patients overcome depression.

35.   Doctors prescribed a medicine for Republican vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney that is intended to keep blood flowing smoothly through his newly opened heart arteries.

36.   Dr. Thomas S. Jensen of San Diego has accused the health maintenance organization of firing him for refusing to prescribe medicine for patients he did not personally examine.

37.   Henney says FDA is working on other drug-safety improvements, including limiting which doctors can prescribe certain medicines when they first hit the market.

38.   Medicine is prescribed by experienced traditional practitioners and checked by dispensers.

39.   Not only has the wrong medicine been prescribed, but now that the patient is critically ill, the doctor wishes to stop any form of medication all together.

40.   Positive tests claimed five medals, including a gold captured by Andreea Raducan, the little Romanian girl whose doctor prescribed cold medicine that turned out to be banned.