These changes will not only enable better access to paper information but will enable the revolution in electronic prescribing information.
The FDA has asked manufacturers of all three types of medication to include a warning about serotonin syndrome in their prescribing information.
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The Vermont law prohibited pharmacies from selling prescribing information to marketers, but not to researchers or organizations that examine whether doctors are complying with formularies or cost-control rules.
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The FDA's approval of the drug comes with the requirement that the prescribing information comes with a boxed warning alerting patients about the possibility of these side effects.
"The rule we will be publishing today represents the first major overhaul of the format and content or prescribing information in 25 years, " said Dr. Janet Woodcock, deputy commissioner for operations.
Responding to years of criticism that the labels of prescription drugs do not do enough to impact the way doctors and patients use medicines, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is announcing a plan to put much clearer and more concise prescribing information on the package inserts for new drugs.
And should doctors keep prescribing medicines when some potentially vital information is being kept out of view?
The report also said the health service now has better quality information on GPs' prescribing than in the past.
Dr. Green says the aim of the trial is to see what patients and their primary-care doctors do with the genetic information, including changing lifestyle, prescribing drugs and ordering additional tests.
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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But what counts in drug litigation is the information that goes to doctors, who are in charge of prescribing medicines.
But this is one way of producing data that might be much better at tracking the information about what happens in the normal, daily course of prescribing medicines than anything that we have right now.
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