Browsing HLS Student Papers by Keyword "off-label"
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Off-Label Use of Prescription Drugs should be Regulated by the FDA
(2003)The FDA does not subject all uses of drugs to a rigorous approval process. There are many justifications given for this. I lay out a system that divides drug-indication sets into four categories: (1) FDA approved; (2) ... -
PHYSICIAN PRESCRIBING PRACTICES AND ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS: A Proposal for Further FDA Regulation of Prescription Drugs
(1995)In 1938 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) adopted regulations which created a category of prescription drugs to be distributed only by order of a physician or other licensed medical personnel. This categorization, ... -
The Truth Hurts?: FDA Regulation of Truthful Speech
(2000)One of the more frightening pictures in our society is one of a speaker being silenced, simply by virtue of who the speaker is; yet, the FDA engages in that type of censorship on a regular basis. The FDA censors manufacturer ...