Prescribers should consult the prescribing information approved for use in their country before the prescription of any medicinal product.
Rituxan's prescribing information already includes a warning about P.M.L. for cancer patients taking the drug.
Regulators also could order that warnings be added to prescribing information.
The agency recommended adding age-specific risks to general precautions already in the prescribing information.
The American College of Physicians has asked that the American Medical Association prohibit the release or sale of doctors' prescribing information.
But for now, Dr. Temple said, the agency does not plan to require changes in ACE inhibitor prescribing information.
We can tell from public prescribing information that some GPs use this a lot more than others.
That same year, the American College of Physicians requested that the A.M.A. prohibit the release or sale of doctors' prescribing information.
Tamiflu's prescribing information was updated last year to tell doctors they should monitor patients for signs of abnormal behavior.
The panel also said, however, that prescribing information should note that Vioxx provides less protection than aspirin for patients' hearts.
Amgen fell $3.05, or 5.5percentto to $52.10 in regular trading, the most since May 10, when a Food and Drug Administration panel suggested new restrictions in prescribing information for the anemia drug.
