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 ...

PHILADELPHIA, November 29, 2006 -- A new study to assess understanding of five common prescription label instructions found that patients had difficulty comprehending how much and how often the ...

Adhesive PWLs were originally developed to highlight important instructions for the safe use of a medication that were contained within the longer package insert and to be visible every time the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California could become the first state with its own prescription drug label under a proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled Thursday. Newsom wants California, home to nearly 40 ...

Medications prescribed to children to treat symptoms or illnesses different from what has approved for those drugs by the FDA are becoming increasingly common, a new study from Rutgers University ...

As many as half of all Americans with chronic diseases like hypertension and depression don’t take their medications as prescribed. And more than 100,000 people die due to medication nonadherence each ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A discussion about off-label drugs is back in the spotlight in Ohio after a similar effort failed last year. House Bill 12 would generally allow a doctor to prescribe any drug, ...

“Should the patient know what drug he is taking? Should the name of the drug be written on the label where any one can see it?” The A.M. A. Journal asked these questions last week in an editorial, and ...

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Collection has over two hundred early prescription labels from dozens of apothecaries across Germany and Austria. Eighteenth and nineteenth century prescription labels were ...

When a child gets sick, doctors are increasingly relying on what's known as "off-label" use of medications, a new study says. Off-label use of a drug means that it hasn't been specifically studied and ...

A Harvard Medical School study found that restricting sales rep access drove down off-label prescriptions of previously detailed drugs. The study of academic medical centers focused on insitutions ...