His analysis indicates that patients get a new Glucophage prescription only every 152 days.
However, the Medicines Act has it as a prescription only drug, which means its unauthorised supply is illegal.
To make it available by prescription only would deprive consumers of a painkiller that is no more dangerous than others.
And once legislators make pseudoephedrine products prescription only, there will be an expectation and probably lobbying efforts to make health insurance pay for it.
But two states, Mississippi and Oregon, decided to go a step further and mandate that products with pseudoephedrine be sold by prescription only.
Plan B is available from generic manufacturers over-the-counter for women 17 and older and Ella is available by prescription only, for all ages, and prevents pregnancy within five days of unprotected sex or contraceptive failure.
However, a new type of mandate is emerging that may initially appear different, but it can have a similar impact: the effort in Kentucky, Indiana and Kansas to have some over-the-counter drugs reclassified as prescription only.
The UK medical newspaper GP reported that 33% of the 423 doctors it surveyed said that they had treated, or suspect they had treated, a patient for the side-effects of substandard prescription only drugs purchased online.
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They are prescription-only drugs in some countries and available over the counter in others.
Plan B has been controversial since 1999 when it first was approved as a prescription-only drug.
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One option is to join a Prescription Drug Plan (PDP), which covers prescription medication only.
She said higher levels of the prescription were only to be used if Mrs Richards' condition deteriorated.
Despite the fact that it is a prescription-only medicine, Aranesp can be easily purchased on the internet.
The difference that prescription-only Diclegis would offer: Combining both ingredients with a delayed-release coating designed to help women take a daily dose before their nausea sets in.
Despite the hopes of Mr. Pewen in the Senate, some consumers think they will be better off getting a prescription-only drug in place of an over-the-counter medication.
One thing that has been unexpected is the success of a generics-only prescription drug program.
Prescription treatments are only about 50 percent effective, and most of these infections usually require the loss of the infected nail itself, the NIH Web site says.
It is looking at a health problem and deciding that their prescription is the only drug that will clear up the rash, when locally sourced medicines may work just as well, if not better.
Two cholesterol-lowering drugs sold only by prescription were in lower doses considered for over-the-counter sale.
It has not only hurt prescription niacin, sold by Abbott, but also older triglyceride-lowering drugs called fibrates, also sold by Abbott.
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Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon said that abolishing prescription charges for people only with long term conditions ignored people on low incomes.
When Claritin was sold only by prescription, insurance companies paid for it.
This scheme would rely on private health-care companies to compete to offer insurance to the elderly covering a full range of services, from hospital care to prescription drugs, now only partly covered by different Medicare premiums.
Though the growth rate was slower than last year--6.1% vs. 6.7%--that was only because of prescription drugs.
It is currently only available on prescription from GPs, family planning clinics and some hospital accident and emergency departments.
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The prescription drugs I take now only go part of the way in helping me get by day 2 day.
Contraceptives are only available by prescription, instead of over the counter.
As meth abuse rises again, Oklahoma is poised to make Sudafed only accessible with a prescription.
Initially the new pill will only be available under prescription from a GP.
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