Medications once used to treat illness are increasingly being taken for prevention. Experts explain what’s behind the ...

Off-label prescribing is when a medication is prescribed for a purpose not approved by the FDA. Insurance might cover off-label prescriptions, but it depends on the specific plan and often requires a ...

Adhesive PWLs were originally developed to highlight important instructions for the safe use of a medication that were contained within the longer package insert and to be visible every time the ...

Off-label prescription of psychiatric drugs in the United States began to take off in the 1990s. Children and adolescents are ...

PHILADELPHIA, November 29, 2006 -- A new study to assess understanding of five common prescription label instructions found that patients had difficulty comprehending how much and how often the ...

A large, new study in JAMA Internal Medicine found off-label medications represent about 12% of drug prescriptions and are resulting in negative side effects about 50% of the time. WSJ’s Sumathi Reddy ...

Small print and poor printing on prescription labels handed out by pharmacists may be misread and may lead to errors in taking medication, according to new research by the University of Waterloo and ...

When a child gets sick, doctors are increasingly relying on what's known as "off-label" use of medications, a new study says. Off-label use of a drug means that it hasn't been specifically studied and ...