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Off-label Drug Promotion and the First Amendment
By David E. Williams Doctors can and often do prescribe medications for different purposes than what the FDA has approved them for. But drug companies face tight restrictions on communicating with...
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Florida Sanctions Top Medicaid Prescribers, After a Shove
By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein At Dr. Huberto Merayo’s bustling psychiatry practice in Coral Gables, Fla., hundreds of poor patients on Medicaid walked away each year with prescriptions for...
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Should Your Boss Encourage You to Take Drugs?
By Michael Schrage A top executive I know recently decided to take Inderal before making high-pressure/high-anxiety presentations. The impact was immediate. She felt more relaxed, confident and...
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Don’t Bypass Physicians
By Peter W. Carmel As physicians, our primary concern is ensuring the health and safety of our patients. The Food and Drug Administration has offered a new concept to make more prescription drugs...
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Expand Over-the-Counter Medications? Very Bad Idea
By Marc Siegel, MD The Food and Drug Administration is considering removing prescription requirements for medications that treat common conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma,...
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The Wrong Way to Stop Fake Drugs
By Roger Bate In 2007-8, when counterfeit versions of heparin, a blood-thinning drug, were shipped from China to the United States market, 149 people died. In the last few months, bogus versions of the...
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No Quick Fix for the Culture of Prescribing that Drives Medication Overload
By THERESA BROWN, RN In my mid-twenties, I was twice prescribed the common antihistamine Benadryl for allergies. However, my body’s reaction to the drug was anything but common. Instead of my hives...
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