Dilemmas about instructions for administering drugs and indications for their use: is there negative effect of pharmaceutical industry?

Abstract

Abstract Instructions for administering some drugs and indications for their use raise certain dilemmas and controversies questioning the appropriateness of the treatment in this way. In this article, some controversies regarding the prescribing of statins in patients whose blood cholesterol level is normal and the use of anticoagulants in the elderly patients without blood clots prior to the treatment are described. Also, it is discussed about some controversies regarding the use of the insulin analogues in the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus.

Keywords

• Instructions for administering drugs
• Impact of pharmaceutical industry
• Statins
• Anticoagulants
• Insulin analogues