Pharmaceutical Industry Off-label Promotion and Self-regulation: A Document Analysis of Off-label Promotion Rulings by the United Kingdom Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority 2003-2012.

<h4>Background</h4>European Union law prohibits companies from marketing drugs off-label. In the United Kingdom--as in some other European countries, but unlike the United States--industry self-regulatory bodies are tasked with supervising compliance with marketing rules. The objectives...

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Main Authors: Andreas Vilhelmsson, Courtney Davis, Shai Mulinari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001945