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Explainer: why are off-label medicines prescribed?

  • Written by The Conversation
imageOff-label use is when an approved medicine is prescribed for a different reason, at a different dose, or in different patient groups than originally intended.Benny Lin/Flickr, CC BY-NC

The off-label use of medicines is not illegal and it doesn’t mean regulators have specifically “disapproved” its use. But there are a number of...

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