Doctors are free to prescribe the drug to anyone, however, and there are concerns that physicians will open "pill mills" and prescribe Qsymia to people who just want to lose a few pounds.
She said that since 2005 more pregnant women had been given NRT although some doctors were still reluctant to prescribe it to them.
Many GPs have told The Investigation they feel that they are being pressurised to prescribe statins to patients some of whom have almost no chance of benefiting.
All Amarin would have had to do was to convince doctors, who were upping their use of fish oil, to prescribe Vascepa to new patients instead of Lovaza.
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When a drug is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for one use, doctors are free to prescribe it to treat other diseases as they see fit.
Schultz is not alone in saying that there is a profound lack of trust in the U.S. congress to prescribe policies to help the economy and reduce the deficit.
Some parents are incensed that doctors are willing to prescribe psychotropic drugs to their young children but not 10 days of penicillin.
In the meantime, it took the unusual step of advising doctors in areas where Tredaptive is approved not to prescribe the drug to new patients.
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The two clinics now believe the breakthrough means it is no longer unethical to prescribe this treatment to healthy women who wish to postpone motherhood for social reasons.
Enacted in January 2010, the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act allowed registered physicians to prescribe medical marijuana to patients with "debilitating medical conditions, " such as cancer and multiple sclerosis.
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent: It's not illegal, but it is unethical to prescribe a placebo to someone who has no idea that he or she is getting a sugar pill.
"These revisions strengthen and add points of information for the practicing physician, and gives them the most accurate information that we have to help them appropriately prescribe Crestor to the appropriate patient population, " he said.
He will continue to prescribe the drug to his patients, who all suffer from the genetic illness familial hypercholesterolemia and desperately need their cholesterol lowered, but he wants more evidence about how Zetia works before a big study of the drugs benefits concludes in 2012, at least a year later than originally expected.
In the meantime, says Dr Sanberg, people with Tourette's syndrome who have not responded to more conventional therapies have nothing to lose by asking their doctors to prescribe mecamylamine, perhaps to take in addition to their current medication.
The medicine for these ills is simple to prescribe, but painfully hard to administer: structural reforms to deregulate labour and product markets.
In the pharmaceutical industry, a key stakeholder group is the physicians who prescribe products to patients.
GPs will be able to prescribe courses of exercise, and to negotiate bargain prices with local fitness centres.
However, Farkouh says that he would not prescribe Vioxx to patients with heart trouble while Celebrex and Prexige are available.
So most doctors are going to be reluctant to prescribe it without a disease or condition to treat.
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Others get their patients to take unnecessary tests, or prescribe expensive drugs to boost their income.
It doesn't allow for doctors to administer euthanasia by injection, though it authorizes them to prescribe lethal drugs that the patient can choose to take.
Other doctors say it's OK -- and sometimes beneficial -- to prescribe something that hasn't been shown to work in studies, as long as it's not harmful.
In 1996 he converted the centers into clinics for doctors to prescribe fen-phen diet drugs, only to run into the little problem that these drugs can cause fatal heart problems.
Guidelines from NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) published in 2006 advised clinicians to only prescribe this class of drugs to people with dementia for limited times and after exhausting alternatives first.
In New Jersey, a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication for terminally ill patients wishing to take their own lives cleared an Assembly committee Thursday.
Physicians are free to prescribe it, so long as they can convince insurance plans to pay for it.
Talking about oncologists not wanting to prescribe Provenge immunotherapy is like talking about a tire dealership not wanting to have a tire manufacturer make tire with unlimited tread miles.
Physicians prescribe drugs for different reasons, the defense theory goes, and it is impossible to prove that every single physician was susceptible to the marketing pitches and allegedly manipulated clinical data drug companies are accused of using to convince them to prescribe their products.
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We have even considered refusing to prescribe inhalers until some patients come for a review, and even those who do come go straight back to their old habits very quickly.
How many patients actually want to take Provenge, and how many doctors want to prescribe it?
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