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Off-label use is the practice of prescribing drugs for a purpose outside the scope of the drug's approved label, most often concerning the drug's indication. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires numerous clinical trials to prove a drug's safety and efficacy in treating a given disease or condition. If satisfied that the drug is safe and effective, the drug's manufacturer and the FDA agree on specific language describing dosage, route and other information to be included on the drug's label. More detail is included in the drug's package insert. However, once the FDA approves a drug for prescription use, they do not attempt to regulate the practice of medicine, and so the physician makes decisions based on her or his best judgment. It is entirely legal in the United States and in many other countries to use drugs off-label, including controlled substances such as opiates, even though it is a common misconception that it is unlawful to do so. Actiq for example is commonly prescribed off-label even though it is a Schedule II controlled substance. However, it is unlawful to market, advertise or otherwise promote the off-label use of drugs, including controlled substances. Off-label use of medications is very common; up to one-fifth of all drugs are prescribed off-label, and amongst psychiatric drugs, it rises to 31% (Radley, et al. 2006).[2]....

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100% Q: i'm taking microgynon contraceptive pill, i've just started taking baclofen, are there any drug indications?

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100% Q: What are the contra-indications of EquitabTM drug?

A:Please Follow this link to find out :- http://www.equitab.com/ I hope it proves helpful to you ! Take Care and God Bless you

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100% Q: Which web language most suitable to build a drug database web application?

I have a website --> psychresidentonline.com <-- that I would like to add a pharmacology 'database' (for lack of a better word) of about 50-75 drugs. Basically I want users to be able to click on any drug and quickly have a page refreshed with that drug's data, with all pages having the exact same format, i.e. drug indications, contraindications, etc. all organized into different sections. Godaddy doesn't support PHP, so that' not option. I would prefer that this be a client-side application as I would like the information on the page to change as quickly as possible, i.e. not reload the page, or not have to go to the server and back. I definitely don't want to have 50-75 separate html pages! Can this be done with JavaScript, AJAX - with some XML or MS SQL serving as the data repository? I can normally figure out how to tackle these problems, but the more time I spend in the computer book isles at the bookstore, the more confused I get. I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks.

A:It could certainly be done client-side with JavaScript. Put your "database" into an Array in a single *.js file. Prob'ly put the functions for managing the "database" into the same file. Have the links in your HTML base page invoke calls to a function that simply replaces the contents of a div in the base page with the info pertaining to that drug item. You could include markup in the "database" or have the retrieval function call a markup function that follows rules for each aspect of the drug item. For instance, you could have your "database" Array structured with one row per item but a set number of columns, each of which is reserved for a particular aspect of the info, e.g., trade name, chemical name, uses, contra-indications, etc. The markup function would apply its rules to compose one string with the markup specific to each of those aspects and then use either DOM methods or JavaScript to replace the old content in your info div with the newly marked-up info for the requested item. The drawback is that you send everybody all of the data, whether they want it or not - bigger bandwidth demand. Once loaded, however, it would be fast. As an exercise in stupid JavaScript tricks, paste the following into your favorite text editor, replace the leading periods with blanks ('....' --> ' '), save it as an HTML and pull it up in your favorite browser. .... .... ....

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100% Q: why is the presence of tootsie roll pops sometimes an indication of drug use?

I heard that when an adult keeps an unusual amount of tootsie rolls around, it is usually a sign of drug use. Is this true? and if so, what does one have to do with the other?

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100% Q: Why is the disk diffusion technique not a perfect indication of how the drug will perform in vivo?

Why is the disk diffusion technique not a perfect indication of how the drug will perform in vivo? What other factors are considered before using the antimicrobial agent in vivo?

A:the drug may not be absorbed efficiently by the body as expected. another factor is that the drug is broken down and the actual metabollites are doing the job.

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