Sentence examples for be prescribed only from inspiring English sources
verb
To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.
- The doctor prescribed aspirin.
Many insurers and doctors say the new drugs should be prescribed only for people at risk for ulcers.
Medicines should be prescribed only when the benefit to be derived outweighs the risks and side effects that may occur.
This provided for controlled drugs to be prescribed only by doctors but also for certain drugs to be designated whose use would never be legal.
A panel of independent experts has recommended that the drug be prescribed only to patients who do not respond to other therapies.
Pfizer has proposed that tofacitinib be prescribed only to patients for whom at least one other rheumatoid arthritis drug has failed to work.
The agency will suggest that the drug be prescribed only with close medical supervision and used only with other safe-sex practices.
Antibiotics are prescribed only for bacterial infections.
Estrogen alone can cause cancer of the uterus and so is prescribed only for women who have had hysterectomies.
Back in the day, estrogen was prescribed only for women who were experiencing serious problems with menopause.
The estrogen-only group was not given progestin, which is prescribed only to protect the uterus from the harmful effects of estrogen.
The letter says this "can result in inadvertent overdose, for example in the case of antibiotic syrups of varying strengths being prescribed only in 'mls'".
