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 5 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 for ...

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Prescribing data from IntrinsiQ Intellidose data systems, a pharmacy software provider maintaining a population-based cohort database of medical oncologists, was analyzed. Use of the most commonly ...

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, ...

During the early ’80s, Dr. Joe Hardy was stationed in South Dakota with the Air Force and treated a patient who suffered from Raynaud’s disease, in which exposure to cold causes numbness in the hands ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorizes the marketing of drugs only for uses that the manufacturer has demonstrated to be safe and effective. However, the FDA does not regulate medical ...

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 ...

Physicians have the authority to prescribe drugs for any reason they believe will benefit the patient, regardless of whether the use is on- or off-label. Off-label prescription is neither illegal nor ...