One of the most alarming things about COVID-19 is that there are no FDA-approved drugs to fight it. Instead, doctors have turned to medications such as azithromycin, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, ...

Kids ages five 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 ...

Cheered by victories in off-label marketing lawsuits, pharma companies were expecting some loosening of the regulatory shackles when the FDA rolled out a new rule on the subject. But that rule, ...

In a recent national survey, a substantial minority of physicians erroneously believed that certain off-label uses of prescription drugs were approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This ...

Physicians have the authority to prescribe drugs for any reason they believe will benefit the patient, regardless of whether the use is on- or off-label. Off-label prescription is neither illegal nor ...

Off-label prescribing, which is broadly defined as the prescribing of drugs outside of the marketing authorization determined by a licensing body such as the US Food and Drug Administration, is a ...