Antibiotics prescription rate drops below 40%

The nation’s campaign for correct antibiotics use saw great progress in the first half of 2011, with the prescription rate falling below 40 percent for the first time.

The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) said Friday that the antibiotics prescription rate for colds, flu and other respiratory diseases in clinics marked 49.70 percent in the first half of this year, down 3...