Most American hospital patients are given drugs not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the prescribed use. If off-label prescribing is so widespread and successful, is the FDA’s pre-approval process really necessary?
Assessing the FDA via the Anomaly of Off-Label Drug Prescribing
By Alexander T. Tabarrok
This article
appeared in
the Summer 2000 issue of The Independent Review.
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