广播电视英语短句 第 293 课：辉瑞制药-3

Officials said Pfizer paid health care providers to prescribe these medicines for conditions other than the ones for which they are approved. This is called "off-label" use of a drug. 美国官员说，辉瑞制药向保健方付钱，为未批准疾病开出这些药品。这是药品的“适应症外”用途。

Doctors are permitted to try off-label uses to treat their patients. 医生允许尝试 “适应症外”用途，医治病人。

The idea is that a doctor might find other ways that a drug is effective. 这一想法是医生也许会发现药品有效的其它途径。

But federal law bars drug companies from marketing their products for unapproved uses. 但是，联邦法禁止制药公司促销 ( 产品 ) 未经批准用途。