One podiatrist wrote $334,000 in prescriptions last year, to 687 people.

Patients can request such labeling on their own when they turn in prescriptions.

In such prescriptions he comes off less like a hanging judge than a knowing and anxious father figure.

Rather, he said, state officials decided that guidelines were needed because of the wide variations in prescriptions being written for patients.

The additional revenue may help hide a decline in prescriptions.

He made a slight alteration in prescriptions, according to my order.

They may also be involved in prescription of stretching routines or other approaches.

Moreover, an interest in alternative prescriptions would seem ill advised.

Many of these medicines are available in both prescription and nonprescription forms.

The drug agency said the earlier restrictions were probably behind a 23 percent drop in prescriptions in 2003, to about 1.2 million.