The Healthy Aging Show » Off Label Use http://www.thehealthyagingshow.com/site Just another WordPress site Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:02:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 When Blind Faith in a Medical Fix Is Broken http://www.thehealthyagingshow.com/site/2010/01/when-blind-faith-in-a-medical-fix-is-broken/ http://www.thehealthyagingshow.com/site/2010/01/when-blind-faith-in-a-medical-fix-is-broken/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:09 +0000 dennis http://www.thehealthyagingshow.com/?p=2162 Ideally, treatments, operations and diagnostic procedures should be thoroughly tested before they come into routine use. But that is not always the case. Drugs and medical devices have to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but once they are on the market, doctors can prescribe them in almost any way they see fit, a practice called off-label use.

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