FDA Worries About Off-Label Use, Stewardship With Limited-Population Approval Pathway
Executive Summary
FDA asks groups how it can help ensure prescribing is limited for products approved under proposed new pathway, but several say, other than labeling, it may be out of the agency’s hands.
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