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Off-Label Communication: Industry Opposes Exclusion Of Phase II Data From US FDA’s Guidance

 
• By Brenda Sandburg

Revised draft guidance about scientific information on unapproved uses (SIUU) of medical products is “impermissibly paternalistic and overly restrictive of scientific speech,” MIWG says.

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The pharma industry criticized guidance on communication of scientific information about a product's unapproved uses. • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration’s revised draft guidance on scientific communications to health care providers about a medical product's unapproved uses did not dampen industry’s decade-long objections to its regulation of such speech.

The Medical Information Working Group, comprised of nine pharma companies, said the guidance exceeds the statutory and constitutional limits on...

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