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Off-label use of blood clotting prescription drug may be killing U.S. soldiers, military doctors say

11/20/2006 - (NaturalNews) Denmark-based company Novo Nordisk's Recombinant Activated Factor VII was originally designed to coagulate blood and treat rare forms of hemophilia, but reports say that it is being used on critically wounded U.S. troops deployed to Iraq,...

FDA expands off-label use of Herceptin breast cancer drug

11/17/2006 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that it has formally agreed to expand the off-label use of Genentech's Herceptin breast cancer drug to include patients with early-stage breast cancer who have undergone surgery. The...

UGA researchers find high rates of off-label prescriptions (press release)

9/25/2006 - A University of Georgia study has found that three-quarters of people prescribed antidepressant drugs receive the medications for a reason not approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. This practice, known as off-label prescribing, is...

Off-label prescribing rampant as doctors give patients amphetamines, psychotropic drugs for weight loss

8/24/2006 - (NaturalNews) Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported that many doctors engage in "off-label" drug prescribing to help patients lose weight, which involves prescribing medications for weight loss that have not been approved by the FDA for that...

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