The Government Goes Off-Target
on Off-Label
Lessons Learned from Vascular Solutions
by Scott Nelson, Group director, WCG; founder, Medsider
INdUSTRY
This article is edited from an
interview by Scott Nelson with
Mark duval, president of duval
& Associates, p.A.
Everyone considers the ban on dissemination of off-label
information to be an extremely important topic. And
rightfully so.
But doctors use medical devices off-label all the time. At
conferences, they present off-label uses for medical devices
on a regular basis. In fact, talk to any KOL, and they think
it’s almost humorous that medical device companies take
off-label promotion so seriously.
