Off-label application

Off-label application

The use of a prescription medication to treat conditions outside the indications approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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This demands expert testimony about off-label use, a topic that the PDR cannot address because neither the drug company, nor the FDA, investigated, tested or reviewed the off-label application.
'Off-label' prescribing, the physician's desk reference and the court
Interventional cardiologists used an approved device for an off-label application in 63 percent of the patients.
Study finds off-label use of devices being used on children
Prevention of bone loss in breast cancer patients treated with hormonal therapy is at present an off-label application for zoledronic acid.
Zoledronic acid infusions cut treatment-related bone loss
It resolves allegations that Novartis and Chiron Corporation, which Novartis acquired in 2006, allowed false claims to be submitted to federal healthcare programmes for some off-label applications of TOBI.
Novartis to pay USD72.5m in USA to settle false claims allegations
Even though Cytotec's fortunes as a gastrointestinal drug have waned and off-label applications drive its current sales, its manufacturer, Pfizer, demurs when asked about its use in abortions.
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