Off-Label Progesterone Use For Preventing Preterm Birth Debated At FDA Panel
Executive Summary
Some members of FDA’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee were not impressed that progesterone is already being used off-label to prevent preterm birth in women with a short cervix.
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