Health officials said doctors could consider prescribing two drugs, amantadine or rimantadine, to prevent or treat influenza among high risk patients.

To complement an individualized wheelchair, an occupational therapist may also consider prescribing a hospital bed, pressure-relieving mattresses and foam wedges for proper positioning to prevent pressure skin ulcers, contractures and deformities.

For the fourth or fifth time that day, he considered prescribing a stimulant shot for himself.

Why would your doctor consider prescribing biologics to treat your Crohn's disease?

I have to examine you first, check your medical history, determine the age of the embryo-only then would I even consider prescribing this medicine for you.

Doctors who treat RA patients should be sensitive to cardiovascular risk when prescribing anti-inflammatory medications, and may want to consider prescribing routine use of low doses of aspirin if the gastrointestinal effects are tolerable.

The study's authors, from Tufts University, said it was prudent for doctors to consider prescribing rival statins instead of Crestor as a first therapy to prevent heart attacks and stroke.

In one widely quoted 1995 survey performed by the Scott-Levin consulting firm in Pennsylvania, 99 percent of doctors said they would prescribe or consider prescribing a specific drug requested by a patient.

They say the move will likely encourage more doctors to consider prescribing medical marijuana in states where it's legal.

One survey of gynecologists and family practice doctors, conducted by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, found that about a third said that they would at least consider prescribing mifepristone.