Two leading, independent bodies of French scientists, doctors and pharmacists are calling for OTC drugs containing pseudoephedrine to be reverse-switched to prescription-only status over safety fears.
France’s Académie Nationale de Médecine and Académie Nationale de Pharmacie are jointly calling on the government to reverse-switch from OTC-to-prescription status the decongestant pseudoephedrine due to safety fears.
The two independent bodies composed of doctors, scientists and pharmacists have published a report – “Drug prescriptions in adults for...
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
HBW Insight speaks to NèreS' executive director Luc Besançon about the key issues facing France's self-care industry, especially Rx-to-OTC switch and the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive.
Effective date for ACNU OTC switch final rule and finding of severe itching from long-term use of common allergy ingredients are bookends for limits of FDA’s authority for product label changes.
