House lawmakers are pushing for the Obama administration to allow drug companies to advertise unapproved drug uses to doctors, a big priority for the pharmaceutical industry.

Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee want the Department of Health and Human Services to relax its requirements on advertising of “off-label” uses of a drug.

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