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Many drugs are prescribed for conditions they weren’t tested for – here’s what you need to know

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par Dipa Kamdar, Teaching Fellow in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University

All prescription drugs need a licence from a regulator to treat a specific condition. But licensed drugs can be prescribed for conditions they haven’t been tested for in a clinical trial. This is known as “off-label” prescribing – and it’s very common.

The UK doesn’t have current figures on overall off-label prescribing, but a US study found that one in five prescriptions was off label.

It is important to note that off-label medicine use is not the same as experimental use. Legally, once a medicine has…

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