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 ...

Doctors often prescribe antidepressants to tackle conditions like migraine headaches for which they aren’t technically approved. Now, researchers say such “off-label” usage mostly occurs without clear ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When you shop through retailer links on our site, we may earn affiliate commissions. 100% of the fees we collect are used to support our nonprofit mission. Learn more. In some cases, off-label ...

Developers of a cutting-edge lab-grown blood vessel designed to save life and limb in war zones and other emergency scenarios ...

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 ...

Cheered by victories in off-label marketing lawsuits, pharma companies were expecting some loosening of the regulatory shackles when the FDA rolled out a new rule on the subject. But that rule, ...