Importantly, conveying information on off-label drugs to doctors is illegal even if the information is entirely truthful and has been corroborated by independent scientists and doctors.
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One provision restricts the ability of drug makers to use sales and marketing personnel to distribute peer reviewed reprints of journal articles that contain off-label information.
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No longer content with label information on daily allowances of vitamins and minerals, U.S. consumers are following the lead of their counterparts in many other countries by demanding more disclosure about where and how their food is grown and whether it is safe.
Grow grapes for wine, and officials must approve everything, from where and when you plant new vines to what information goes on the label you put on the bottle.
How should the recipient classify and label confidential information?
This morning, the drug giant confirmed in a press release that it is renegotiating the safety information on Eprex's label in France.
State surplus property managers say the best thing travelers can do is label their valuables with contact information.
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They have also requested financial information from Universal Music - the record label which released a Boomtown Rats greatest hits compilation and re-mastered versions of their six studio albums earlier this year.
The FDA initially declined to approve it, asking in March 2010 for more information about the drug's prescribing label and the companies' risk-management plan to ensure the drug's benefits outweigh its risks.
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It also noted that while interest rates on cards have fallen since about 1990, in recent years major lenders' disclosures about the costs associated with their cards often "buried important information in text, failed to group and label related material, and used small typefaces"--thus vexing, often bewildering, consumers.
Rearranging the small type on the typical prescription label, Ms. Adler put the information in a logical order, giving prominence to the things that people most need to know at the moment they are reaching for their medicine.
"I feel strongly that it's not safe or advisable for people to take this off-label until we get those critical pieces of information, " said Dr. Sperling.
If not, does some information not belong, or do you need to re-label a bucket?
Drug companies, however, are forbidden from marketing drugs for off-label uses, although they can give materials and information to doctors if the doctors ask.
Governments could define best practice on dealing with information flows and the processing of data, just as they require firms to label processed foods with the ingredients or impose public-health standards.
For 20 years, federal health and justice officials have concocted and applied a warped set of legal principles which essentially prohibit medical product makers from sharing truthful information (even peer-reviewed journal articles) with doctors about off-label uses.
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The authors don't state as fact information that they can't back up and, in general, seem willing to label claims as either credible or not.
Other innovations include placing a QR code on a pill-bottle label that consumers can scan with a smartphone to download a short video with information about the drug.
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She divided the label into two parts, separated by a thick black line, and placed the critical information, such as the name and dosage of the medication, at the top, with everything else relegated to the bottom.
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