Germany's Expert Committee for Prescription will consider the reverse-switch of tyrothricin – a key ingredient in Stada's recently-acquired Lemocin throat lozenge – to presciption-only status and the Rx-to-OTC switch of soluble fluoride tablets for the oral treatment of osteoporosis.
Head-scratchers seem to be the order of the day at the German switch committee’s next meeting on 26 January 2021.
Firstly, Germany’s Expert Committee for Prescription – an independent body that advises the country’s Ministry of Health, the BMG, on...
Creating a working group to drive Rx-to-OTC switch is one of the ways in which Finland could expand self-care and save €60m per year for the country's health system, suggests a recently published report commissioned by Haleon.
Reacting to chancellor Rachel Reeves' 2025 public spending review, PAGB welcomed increased funding for healthcare and life sciences while stressing the need to promote self-care practices.
The EU Council has introduced a key amendment to Article 51 (para 1, point e) of the new pharma directive: “A medicinal product shall be subject to medical prescription where it is an antimicrobial, unless intended for topical use.”
If the European Commission is serious about improving the competitiveness of the European Union, it should ditch the idea of making commonly used OTC antimicrobials like thrush treatments and cold sore creams prescription-only, warns Greek Medicines Agency president Evangelos Manolopoulos
P&G provided sufficient support for all challenged claims, including the “Gum Detoxify” brand used on the product label and in advertising on the website and in magazine detail pages.
Complaint filed Utah federal court says “Supreme Court explicitly rejected Chevron deference to agency interpretations” in the Loper decision, compelling rejection of “an agency’s statutory interpretation unless the court, ‘after applying all relevant interpretive tools, concludes’ the interpretatio
A round-up of the latest people moves: Pharma Deutschland names head of new OTC Market division; the African Medicines Agency appoints director general; the UK's Food Standards Agency adds members to novel foods committee.
