In discussing this paper in October, I expressed my concerns that any resulting efforts to make pseudoephedrine a prescription product would further restrict one of the remaining useful decongestants from legitimate sale to consumers.
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FDA's statement emphasises that it is smoked marijuana which has not gone through the process necessary to make it a prescription drug. (Nor would it be likely to, with all of the harmful things in the smoke.) The statement's emphasis on smoked marijuana is important because it leaves the door open for the agency to approve other methods of delivery.
In most states contact lenses can be sold only with proof of a valid prescription--either a written prescription or oral approval from an ophthalmologist or an optometrist, who make their livings largely from the stuff they sell, contact lenses among them.
To make it available by prescription only would deprive consumers of a painkiller that is no more dangerous than others.
The Ryan Haight Bill--named after an 18-year-old who died from an overdose of Vicodin purchased online in 2001--would make it illegal to sell prescription drugs online without proof of a prescription issued to the patient in person by a doctor.
Representative DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (Democrat, Florida): There's far more that needs to be done beyond extending the deadline, but at the very least we need to make sure that seniors don't face what is essentially a Bush prescription drug tax for every day that they don't sign up after Monday.
Now they may do it very indirectly by hiring an advisor who allocates funds to many different money managers who invest in companies like CVS, where managers decide whether they should have a store every quarter mile or so or that maybe people can make it an extra mile or two to fill their prescription or buy a bottle of Mountain Dew.
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Since then the bread, which you get on prescription, has improved a bit but I still toast it to make it more palatable.
This move comes just weeks after a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, ordered the FDA to make the morning-after birth control pill available to women of any age, without a prescription.
But we have not eliminated Medicare Advantage, and insurance companies can still make money operating a well-managed Medicare Advantage program that helps to manage and coordinate the prescription drugs and the dental and all that stuff.
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Kemp Hannon, the Long Islander who is chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said it doesn't make sense to loosen marijuana laws at a time of growing concern about illegal sales and abuse of prescription drugs.
Novartis Chief Executive Daniel Vasella has argued that although branded prescription medicines are sold at much higher prices, a worldwide emphasis on cost-savings make copycat medicines a fast-growing market worth being in.
He admitted to Ms. Winfrey that the prescription for the cream was written after the positive test and backdated by a doctor to make it appear as if he had already been taking it.
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