"Until a medication is studied long term, it should not be prescribed long term for healthy women".
In the wake of that announcement, the medical community reached a consensus that estrogen and progestin supplements should not be prescribed for more than a few years.
British drug regulators warned yesterday that GlaxoSmithKline's popular antidepressant Paxil causes depressed children to become more suicidal and should not be prescribed for them.
The guidelines from the UK's National Institute of Care and Excellence (Nice) specifically say that gluten and casein-free diets should not be prescribed or used.
In medical school, Schneider had been taught that opioids were so addictive that patients should not be prescribed them unless they were dying, but the thinking in the field had evolved.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence clinical guidelines state that fluoxetine, a type of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, can be used in under-18s, but should not be prescribed without first referring the child for talking therapy.
In June, 2003, the agency convened an emergency meeting to review pediatric trial data on Seroxat, an S.S.R.I. known in the United States as Paxil, and concluded that the drug should not be prescribed for minors.
And the authors of the study, three of whom are Abbott employees, concluded that the trial results did little more than show that patients with heart problems should not be prescribed Meridia — a restriction already included in Meridia's label.
The guidelines recommend that ADHD medication should not be prescribed to pre-school children for the long term.nor in isolation from other therapeutic interventions, without consultation But the association said it was aware of a substantial increase in the number of children aged under six, and in some cases as young as three, being prescribed ADHD drugs.
Four months earlier Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence had decided that Kadcyla should not be prescribed routinely on the National Health Service for women with breast cancer, since its list price is around $140,000 a course.As with all new drugs, it is not just a matter of how well a biologic works compared with existing treatments, but also whether it is affordable.
The experts suggest that antibiotic prophylaxis should not be prescribed for tracheotomy.
