News tagged with label drugs
Study first to evaluate prevalence, impact of off label chemotherapy in breast cancer
May 15, 2009 |
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At some point during their care, more than one-third of metastatic breast cancer patients receive chemotherapy off label, the legal use of FDA-approved drugs in a different indication than for which they were ...
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Researchers: Strengthen restrictions on off-label promotion by pharmaceutical companies
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Researchers are asking for tougher penalties and fines for pharmaceutical companies that market drugs for "off label" promotion, according to a study published in the October 28 issue of the open access journal PLoS Medicine.
Doctors should disclose off-label prescribing to their patients
Nov 11, 2008 |
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Doctors should be required to disclose when they are prescribing drugs off-label, argues a new article in this week's PLoS Medicine. Michael Wilkes and Margaret Johns from the University of California Davis argue that the et ...
Off-label use: Oft not evidence based
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 21, 2009 |
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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 mistaken belief ...
Stanford researcher criticizes FDA plans to reduce oversight of off-label drug use
Apr 03, 2008 |
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Proposed guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would allow companies to market more drugs for unapproved uses and are a step in the wrong direction, said a researcher from the Stanford University School of ...
Doctors' resources for off-label prescribing may be incomplete, unclear
Feb 16, 2009 |
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The resources doctors use to get important information about indications and reimbursement for use of cancer drugs off-label may be out-of-date and incomplete, according to a study led by researchers in the Duke Comprehensive ...
14 drugs identified as most urgently needing study for off-label use, Stanford professor says
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Physicians and policy-makers know that drugs are frequently prescribed to treat certain diseases despite a lack of FDA approval — a practice known as off-label prescribing. Yet they say the problem is so big they don't know ...
FDA toughens warnings on over-the-counter painkillers
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 29, 2009 |
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The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it is asking drugmakers to more prominently display safety warnings on the labels of some of the most widely used over-the-counter pain and fever remedies.
Off-label medicine combinations are the predominant treatment in survey of schizophrenics
Sep 10, 2008 |
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Off-label medication use, the clinical application of prescribed drugs for indications other than those approved by the relevant drug regulatory agency (in the US, the Food and Drug Administration—FDA), is widespread in many ...
Patient privacy focus of Amgen suit
Jan 09, 2008 |
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Two former employees with the California biotech company Amgen Inc. allege the company persuaded sales people to access patient records to boost sales.
Innappropriate drug prescriptions wasting millions, raising health risks
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 04, 2009 |
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A recent study in Oregon suggests that drugs designed for treating the most severe mental illnesses are often prescribed at inappropriately low doses and at considerable expense, for use in conditions where their benefit ...
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