University of Massachusetts Medical School eScholarship@UMMS Population and Quantitative Health Sciences Publications Population and Quantitative Health Sciences 2008 Weighing in 10 Years Later: Reflections on Contagious Off-Label Use of Phentermine and Fenfluramine Regina C. Grebla Brown University Et al. Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Follow this and additional works at: https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/qhs_pp Part of the Bioinformatics Commons, Biostatistics Commons, Epidemiology Commons, and the Health Services Research Commons Repository Citation Grebla RC, Waring ME. (2008). Weighing in 10 Years Later: Reflections on Contagious Off-Label Use of Phentermine and Fenfluramine. Population and Quantitative Health Sciences Publications. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/qhs_pp/379 This material is brought to you by eScholarship@UMMS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Population and Quantitative Health Sciences Publications by an authorized administrator of eScholarship@UMMS. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Looking Back, Learning Forward History doesn’t repeat itself -- at best it sometimes rhymes. Mark Twain Weighing in 10 years later: Reflections on Contagious off-label use of Phentermine and Fenfluramine Contributed by Regina C. Grebla, MGA, MPH PhD(c) Molly E. Waring AM PhD(c) Graduate students, Brown Medical School The piece for this edition of Scribe focuses on the phentermine and fenfluramine story. This edition comes to you from two students in my advanced pharmacoepidemiology course, shortened significantly to meet the needs of this column. I welcome contributions which stay true to the theme of reflecting and learning about past challenges in pharmacoepidemiology. Please forward ideas to :
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