Harvard Drug Research Fraud and Cover-up: How Off-Label Profiteering Works
Drug company money influences and corrupts research. That is a given.
What is less understood is why drug manufacturers spend billions for research on off-label uses for their products – uses that were never cleared with the FDA when the drug was submitted for approval.
Off-label use allows drug companies to get “through the back door” what they could never, and I mean never, get away with by going directly to the FDA for approval for a new use of a product – what is known today as an off-label use.
You would hope that researchers wouldn’t corrupt the commercial experimentation of a new, or off-label, use of a drug to treat children by covering up their consulting fees from Big Pharma. But that’s what happened.