Aggressive policies that target the use and promotion of off-label use are needed to prevent the use of drugs for non-approved indications with little benefit or with harmful outcomes. It should be ...

Kids ages five to 11 can now be vaccinated against COVID-19 following the Food and Drug Administration's emergency use authorization of the Pfizer Bio-NTech vaccine for this age group and the Centers ...

One of the most alarming things about COVID-19 is that there are no FDA-approved drugs to fight it. Instead, doctors have turned to medications such as azithromycin, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, ...

The FDA published a rule last month that would change the definition of "intended use" for drugs and devices—and pharma companies aren't in favor. () Cheered by victories in off-label marketing ...

When your doctor hands you a prescription, you probably assume that the drug was approved to treat the problem you came in for. But that's not always the case. Lots of drugs are prescribed off-label, ...

Using data from the 2012 and 2013 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys, researchers looked at all adult outpatient visits to psychiatric practices for chronic care management in which ≥1 ...

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The majority of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications in state Medicaid programs are taking these agents for off-label indications. Continuously enrolled patients with at least 1 prescription ...

Severe legal penalties await companies that promote the use of their medical devices for procedures unapproved by FDA. Federal law prohibits such off-label promotion, but the practice occurs ...

In a recent national survey, a substantial minority of physicians erroneously believed that certain off-label uses of prescription drugs were approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This ...