Law Professor Lays Out Possible Defense Of FDA's Restrictive Off-Label Policies

October 11, 2017 at 2:56 PM
While courts have struck down FDA's prohibition on off-label promotion based on First Amendment grounds, the agency has good standing to prohibit such actions when considering various canons of statutory construction, one law professor argues in a recently published University of Chicago Law Review article . FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb recently signaled FDA would rethink its approach toward off-label communication in light of recent court losses. While Gottlieb did not name cases, most proponents of off-label communication point to...


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