Some patients with COVID-19 will be able to get easier access to Pfizer's oral antiviral therapy Paxlovid, after the FDA ruled that pharmacists would be able to prescribe the drug.
A study has found that there is still a very high level of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing to patients in the US, particularly to older and Black patients.
An alarming number of people in England are being prescribed medicines unnecessarily, which could harm their health, according to a UK government review.
In the first of two articles, Theano Anastasopoulou uses behavioural economics to understand and investigate how physicians make decisions and thereby improve the take-up of new medicines.