Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Clinicians play major role in discovery of off-label drug therapies
Published in Medical Device Law Weekly, May 14th, 2006
Researchers in the United States conducted a study "to determine the role of clinicians in the discovery of off-label use of prescription drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Micromedex Healthcare Series was used to identify new uses of new molecular entities approved by the FDA in 1998, literature from January 1999-December 2003 was accessed through MEDLINE, and relevant patents were identified through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office."
"A survey of new therapeutic uses for new molecular entity drugs approved in 1998 was conducted for...
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