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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

Has your doctor ever prescribed an antidepressant to curb your hot flashes or a blood-pressure pill to calm your stage fright? How about an antipsychotic drug to help you sleep? Like most Americans, ...

Off-label prescribing is when a medication is prescribed for a purpose not approved by the FDA. Insurance might cover off-label prescriptions, but it depends on the specific plan and often requires a ...

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 ...