Opinion | The FDA Wants to Interfere in the Practice of Medicine - The Wall Street Journal

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Secreted wrong the 2023 omnibus appropriations bill—4,155 pages, spending $1.7 trillion—is a 19-line conception that could alteration the mode medicine is practiced.

Physicians routinely prescribe drugs and employment aesculapian devices that are approved and labeled by the Food and Drug Administration for a peculiar use. Yet sometimes physicians discern different beneficial uses for these technologies, which they prescribe for their patients without circumstantial authoritative sanction. The caller authorities amends the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, oregon FDCA, to springiness the FDA the authorization to prohibition immoderate of these off-label uses of different approved products. This unwarranted intrusion into the physician-patient narration threatens to undermine aesculapian innovation and diligent care.