noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
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I pause here to point out that items such as dressings are available on prescription .
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It is usually prescribed for women after their available only through prescription .
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The morning-after pill is to be available without prescription at chemists from the new year.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first drug test available without a prescription .
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These are marketed under various names, including Rehidrat, Dioralyte and Gluco-lyte, and are available on prescription .
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Starting in April, the hair-growth liquid will be sold over the counter after years of being available only by prescription .
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Like Viagra, Ixense will in principle target men, and will be available only on prescription .
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Nicorette is only available on prescription .
free
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If a higher age is fixed, women would be denied free prescriptions and bus passes at 60.
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Company magazine backs a campaign and petition to keep all brands of the Pill available free on prescription in its latest issue.
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The benefits are free prescriptions , optical and dental charges and help with fares to hospitals.
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So what have the free-market prescriptions accomplished?
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Under the changes, needy and elderly people and those who currently get free prescriptions on medical grounds will remain exempt.
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If you can't get free prescriptions Prescription charges From 1 April 1989, each item on a prescription will cost £2.80.
new
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At each visit, any unused tablets were returned to check on compliance and a new prescription issued.
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Standard high-tech stuff like ultrasound imaging and the latest hypertension drugs are available along with various New Age prescriptions .
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More recently, coupons have appeared on over-the-counter drugs, such as antacids, and new prescription products.
■ NOUN
charge
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People requiring regular medication would also be exempt from prescription charges .
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From this gross total is deducted the amount they collect in prescription charges .
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We have not sought to extend the list of conditions which entitle a sufferer to exemption from prescription charges .
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My Bill would exempt many of them from prescription charges .
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It allows no commitment to freezing prescription charges , although these would be reduced by 30p.
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When prescription charges were introduced, the special clinics were exempted, and treatment continues to be free.
drug
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And yes, there is a prescription drug for that-Revia, from Du Pont.
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The Food and Drug Administration Tuesday announced a program aimed at providing consumers with better information about prescription drugs.
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It hopes to sell Tagamet, now a prescription drug , this way.
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The autopsy would eventually show that Mom had taken three different prescription drugs .
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HMOs are fleeing Arizona's rural counties, leaving seniors with rising prescription drug bills and no coverage.
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So do Gore's hopes of securing a universal prescription drug benefit for the elderly.
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Most senior citizens also lack coverage for prescription drugs and dental care, which are not covered by Medicare.
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Within the pharmaceutical division, prescription drug sales rose 9 percent in local currencies.
policy
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Health policy did not escape this intellectual challenge, but policy prescription can not be assumed to lead to policy change.
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To this scene of disarray they brought a bold policy prescription unknown to Malthus: family planning.
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This potential weakness has to be borne in mind when macroeconomic models are used as a basis for policy prescription .
repeat
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Y'know, I just get a repeat prescription every week.
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Get the repeat prescriptions in time so that he is never left without.
■ VERB
fill
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I don't want to fill a prescription .
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Rite Aid led drugstores in refusing to fill the prescriptions on the basis that they would lose money.
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One by one, chains operating stores in Maryland told state workers they would have to go elsewhere to fill prescriptions .
follow
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Moreover, farm subsidies undermine the efforts of developing countries to follow Washington's economic prescriptions .
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Those not following their prescriptions deserve to be punished.
give
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Campus Health Centres will give advice on prescription and dental charges.
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Richard saw a shrink, who gave him a prescription for antidepressants.
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One old man remembered that a visit as a child to the doctor did not result in being given a prescription .
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Like other doctor gurus, he was giving women prescriptions in feminine morality, from a distinctly male point of view.
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If you've already been wearing glasses you must still be given a prescription , even if your sight hasn't changed.
offer
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Both were concerned to offer prescriptions as to how organisations should be run with a view to particular management ends.
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For the elderly, Medicare HMOs offer prescription coverage and other extras at no added cost.
provide
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Doctors are required to cite a study confirming the proven medical benefits of the drug and provide a written prescription .
receive
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Results Characteristics of patients receiving sildenafil prescriptions are reported in Table 1.
write
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In any case some of those officials are themselves busy moonlighting as doctors and writing prescriptions .
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Doctors are required to cite a study confirming the proven medical benefits of the drug and provide a written prescription .
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He nodded and wrote a prescription for Dexamethazone.
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The doctor looked dubiously at her stomach, sighed, and wrote her a prescription for more sedatives.
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I never wrote prescriptions for imaginary patients.
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All hand written domiciliary prescriptions were transferred to the computer and recorded in the study.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
repeat order/prescription
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Repeat orders Dated-product manufacturers will try and sell out by year-end, so repeat orders before Christmas can be a problem.
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Also, Haines reckons that fair play has helped it win repeat orders.
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Coupon not required for repeat orders.
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Get the repeat prescriptions in time so that he is never left without.
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It has to win repeat orders.
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They can produce repeat prescriptions when the doctor so authorises.
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Y'know, I just get a repeat prescription every week.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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With my insurance, prescriptions cost a maximum of $5.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to the researchers, more than 8 million prescriptions were written for nasal steroids in 1993.
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But a disciplinary hearing of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland was told he sold the product without a prescription .
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Jeffrey was refused help with the prescription for his inhaler because the Department of Health said his income exceeded the required level.
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Once caricatured as far-Right-wingers, they were dependable for their unsolicited robust views on hanging, repatriation and grisly prescriptions for homosexuals.
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So do Gore's hopes of securing a universal prescription drug benefit for the elderly.
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Then I stopped off to do a bit of shopping, cash in Betty Y's prescription etcetera.
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This prescription is for a controlled substance.