off-label use

However, there is often extensive medical literature to support the off-label use.

Drug companies may not promote or market drugs for off-label uses.

The pharmaceutical company isn't allowed to give you medicine for an off-label use.

"The insurance company will decline to pay, because that is considered experimental or off-label use of drugs."

In general, such methods may hold important opportunities for off-label use of existing approved drugs.

Such off-label use of approved medications is legal and commonplace in American medicine.

Actimmune's sales represent an extreme case of what is known as off-label use.

There is no doubt that off-label use of drugs is big business for the pharmaceutical industry.

It has been estimated that more than half of all prescriptions written nationwide are for off-label uses.

Beyond the federal rules, guidelines by doctors' groups give physicians wide latitude to talk about off-label use.

There may also be off-label use of medications.

Drugs such as gabapentin have been widely prescribed for the off-label use of pain control.

Use of gabapentin for hot flashes is an off-label use.

Sales of the drug are growing at a rate of 50 percent a year - fueled mostly by those off-label uses.

"I know of no off-label use or need for propofol," Dombrowski says.

Other than that, Medicare payments for off-label uses are up to the discretion of local contractors to the agency.

Access to pharmaceutical industry documents have revealed marketing strategies used to promote drugs for off-label use.

The process is known as off-label use.

In the last decade, the off-label use of antidepressants to help early ejaculators slow down has become an open secret.

But used for the eye condition, which is legal and known as an off-label use, it works the same way as Lucentis.

Off-label use of drugs is very common.

Using antidepressants to treat menopause symptoms is considered an off-label use for these medicines.

Roche put a significant marketing effort behind iproniazid, including promoting its off-label use for depression.

Insomnia (in some countries, this is an off-label use)

More recent evidence supports its off-label use against arthropods: