How to Use off-label in a Sentence

off-label

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• They are not approved for weight loss but can be prescribed off-label by doctors.
  — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2023
• While it is not yet approved for weight loss, it might be used off-label for obesity—and soon to be approved for it.
  — Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2023
• That means doctors have to be familiar enough with the hormone to prescribe it off-label.
  — Rachel E. Gross, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
• Instead, a healthcare provider may prescribe medicines for off-label use.
  — Sarah Fielding, Health, 3 July 2023
• Doctors still can prescribe it as an off-label for obesity or for those with a high body mass index (BMI) of 27kg/m2 or greater.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• Your doc may also suggest off-label SLIT droplets, since these may help cat and dog allergies.
  — Kathleen Felton, SELF, 10 June 2024
• That prompted people to seek out Ozempic (a lower dose of the same drug), via off-label prescriptions.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 11 Mar. 2023
• But then doctors began using them off-label to take weight off and then things really got hot for them.
  — David Sherer, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2024
• Few weight-loss drugs have been approved for older children, although many are used off-label.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• Giving ketamine off-label doesn’t come with the same FDA requirements.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
• Some insurers cover off-label uses of GLP drugs while many do not.
  — Daniel Gilbert, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
• Ozempic is not for off-label use, says Allison Schneider, a spokeswoman for Novo Nordisk, who makes the drug.
  — Claire Trageser, ELLE, 1 May 2023
• Other forms of semaglutide, meanwhile, have been prescribed off-label for weight-loss treatment as well.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2024
• Ozempic and Mounjaro are being prescribed off-label for weight loss.
  — Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 12 June 2023
• While these are not specifically approved for use in the jawline, many injectors do use them off-label to sculpt this area.
  — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2023
• Ketamine was approved by the FDA as an anesthetic and is used off-label otherwise.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 16 Mar. 2023
• Misoprostol would still be available for both abortions and miscarriages on its own, but as an off-label use.
  — Bymary Kekatos, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Its off-label use also has placed ketamine in a medical and legal gray area, Alexander said.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2024
• Some doctors have been prescribing the diabetes drugs for off-label use by patients who don't have diabetes and just want to go down in waist size.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
• Over the past year, demand squeezed Wegovy supplies, so dieters asked their doctors to prescribe Ozempic for weight loss, an off-label use.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 21 June 2023
• In December, the company began prescribing a suite of drugs off-label for weight loss.
  — Madison Muller, Fortune, 20 May 2024
• The former is approved only for diabetes; any use of it for weight loss is considered off-label, according to the FDA.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Doctors can still prescribe it for weight loss as an off-label medication.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• That’s why a health care professional should supervise this off-label use.
  — Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
• But the actual numbers are likely to be far higher because the data is drawn from insurance claims, and plans tend not to cover the drug’s off-label uses.
  — Chris Hamby, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• But it is also often used off-label for breast cancer prevention.
  — Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 29 Nov. 2023
• And for all the uproar surrounding the resulting uptick in off-label ketamine use and abuse, the number of deaths is apparently so low that they are not even tracked by the government.
  — Erik Hedegaard, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2024
• It’s often prescribed off-label for weight loss, and its popularity may have led to a shortage of the product earlier this year.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
• Honig also sees potential for off-label use to try to stave off symptoms in people with high levels of brain amyloid and knows of clinicians who have prescribed it for this purpose.
  — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 29 Oct. 2024
• And of course, there’s spironolactone, an oral blood pressure medication used off-label to help with hormonal acne in women.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024