Severe legal penalties await companies that promote the use of their medical devices for procedures unapproved by FDA. Federal law prohibits such off-label promotion, but the practice occurs ...

In the US, although pharmaceutical representatives are not supposed to detail doctors on off-label uses, representatives are rated, and compensated, based on sales. As one industry consultant quoted ...

If you sell products to your customers, many of the items probably already have UPC barcodes you scan when ringing up sales. However, you can use barcodes on products or items for other purposes as ...

Off-label prescription of a drug is generally legal, but promotion of off-label uses by a drug manufacturer is illegal. In an article in this week's PLoS Medicine, two physician researchers describe ...

With their law enforcement counterparts at the federal level raking in prodigious financial settlements, it's no surprise that state attorneys general ("state AGs") want a bigger piece of the action ...

Overview: Promoting a drug or device for a use not approved by the Food and Drug Administration is illegal. As a result of this practice, called "off-label promotion," life sciences companies have ...

A relatively unpublicized feature in Word 2007 and 2010 lets you print labels using built-in templates that are suitable for just about any sheet of labels you can buy. With the templates, you can ...