Healthy Skepticism Library item: 6780

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Publication type: Journal Article

Ault A.
US FDA ordered to allow off-label data dissemination
Lancet 1998; 352:555

Abstract:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has barred drug companies from sending unsolicited articles to physicians on off-label uses of their products, but this policy may soon be overturned.

Keywords:
*news story/United States/FDA/Food and Drug Administration/regulation of promotion/ reprints/ unlabeled indication/ doctors/PROMOTIONAL TECHNIQUES: UNLABELED INDICATIONS/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: DIRECT GOVERNMENT REGULATION