Health care industry experts' comments to FDA show that clearing alternative routes to nonprescription status will encounter bumps and generate concerns, as you’ll read in the April 2 issue of “The Tan Sheet.”
At a public hearing on ideas about making more drugs available nonprescription but “under conditions of safe use,” stakeholders questioned whether some prescription "antidotes" should be switched to restricted nonprescription status, and noted that drug firms likely will not invest in novel switches without market exclusivity and a requirement to make generics also subject to consumer access restrictions.
In this issue we also report on the Health Choices Coalition urging Congress to support legislation that would strike the health care reform law requirement that consumers obtain a prescription in order to purchase OTCs with a pre-tax savings account.
For much more, and "The Tan Sheet's" April 2 table of contents, click here.
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