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off-label use

Off-label Promotion

Bad Ad Program Yields Two OPDP Enforcement Letters on Risk, Safety Information

Bad Ad Program Yields Two OPDP Enforcement Letters on Risk, Safety Information

Oct. 19, 2018 — The FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued two enforcement actions in less than a week that focused on alleged safety and risk information infractions for products with Boxed Warnings; both matters were brought to the agency’s attention through OPDP’s Bad Ad program. “These letters are significant not because they […]

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Califf Calls for Off-label Promotion Code of Ethics

May 18, 2017 – At this week’s information-packed Coalition for Healthcare Communication’s Rising Leaders Conference, keynote speaker and former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said that “healthcare marketers need to create a code of ethics to promote drugs for truthful and non-misleading uses outside their FDA-approved labels, commonly referred to as off-label promotion,” according to coverage […]

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Off-label Promotion

Citizen Petition Calls on FDA to Stay Final Rule Establishing “Totality of the Evidence” Standard for Intended Use

Citizen Petition Calls on FDA to Stay Final Rule Establishing “Totality of the Evidence” Standard for Intended Use

  Feb. 24, 2017 – The FDA recently published a final rule on intended use and adequate directions for use that establishes a not-previously-announced “totality of the evidence” standard and is in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act because it deprives stakeholders of fair notice and the opportunity to comment, according to a Feb. 8 […]

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