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Lack of knowledge fuels off-label prescribing
Off-label prescribing--a normal practice among physicians--is at least partially fueled by a lack of knowledge about a drug's approval status, a new survey says. Of the 457 physicians who completed
When is an old drug better than new?
Sorry, pharma, but when it comes to drugs, newer doesn't always mean better. So why are new drugs prescribed so often? Especially in a disease where an old treatment is actually the so-called "gold
Study: Half of doctors use placebo
Take a couple of sugar pills and call me in the morning? Apparently, many doctors aren't bothering with aspirin anymore; instead, they're using placebo treatments on some patients. And the very
NHS: docs overprescribe branded drugs
Doctors overprescribe brand-name meds, and it's pharma's fault. Or so says a new report from the UK's Committee of Public Accounts. One-fifth of the general practitioners surveyed said their
