Rx-to-OTC Switch
Petros will incorporate into its platform an analytics firm’s automated document capture and authentication system leveraging its global ID library to verify identity and eligibility of consumers accessing the self-selection process for an ACNU switch.
An application for melatonin as an OTC medicine is on the agenda for the next German switch committee meeting, despite the hormone being widely available in food supplements. Acyclovir as a buccal tablet and second-generation antihistamine rupatadine are also up for discussion.
After the product’s initial launch in May 2024, California’s government has now expanded the availability of its CalRx-branded generic OTC Narcan to all of its citizens.
HBW Insight catches up with UK OTC industry association CEO Michelle Riddalls to talk about digital self-care and the unrealized promise of Brexit - part 2.
Reps. Latta, Crenshaw and Miller-Meeks contend language in ACNU final rule preamble would allow a sponsor of an approved application to litigate to halt Rx availability of same formulation and “risk eliminating the very rule on which its product approval was based.”
HBW Insight catches up with PAGB CEO Michelle Riddalls to chat about the association's new five year plan. Riddalls also reflects on the successes of the last five years, including relaunching the UK Reclassification Alliance, which has published a list of Rx-to-OTC switches the government would like to see applications for. Part one of two.
“I’m not sure exactly if they understood how broad this actually is and what that might potentially lead to or what the follow-up would be if somebody now decides to sell a 10-milligram version of ivermectin for human use,” says food and drug regulation attorney Frederick Stearns.
Eisai aims to support people in Japan with severe heartburn and discomfort caused by gastric acid related conditions by switching from prescription to OTC status its Pariet-branded proton pump inhibitor.
Two AESGP papers reviewing the evidence for AMR risk associated with a range of OTC antifungals and antivirals conclude there is litte to no risk associated with the responsible self-care use of such medicines.
HBW Insight speaks to AESGP director general Jurate Švarcaite about what's on the agenda for the upcoming 61st AESGP Annual Meeting, which will take place in Warsaw, Poland, between 2-4 June. Highlights include the role of prevention in self-care, discussions about how regulators will ensure the competitiveness of European industry on the world stage and incoming changes to sustainability legislation.
“Overall, no unexpected/new data or findings” were presented to Germany's Expert Committee for Prescription in the most recent Rx-to-OTC switch application for sildenafil (25mg and 50mg), according to medicines regulator BfArM, resulting in a third rejection in three years.
HBW Insight catches up with Maxwellia CEO Anna Maxwell to discuss her company's journey so far, and what she sees as the opportunities for Rx-to-OTC switch in UK women's health and beyond.
Advercheck managing director James Walmsley talks to HBW Insight about the challenges facing consumer health companies today as they move away from the prescription medicines sector and its pipeline of switchable ingredients towards self-care and prevention.
Almost two thirds (62%) of respondents to an online survey said they would rather buy non-prescription medicines in a local pharmacy than via a mail-order pharmacy, Pharma Deutschland reports.
Sleep, pain, allergy and women's intimate health among the categories that the UK Department of Health and Social Care would like to see manufacturers submit Rx-to-OTC switch applications for.
Increased openness about sexual health and wellness, Rx-to-OTC switches and NPD at leading companies, and easy access to products online are driving the growth of Europe's sexual health market, according to Euromonitor International.
“The SVA has missed an opportunity to make an important contribution to patient safety and to strengthening personal responsibility,” commented Pharma Deutschland deputy general manager Elmar Kroth.
Opella says FDA “lifted a clinical hold on its planned actual use trial to support the switch of Cialis” while Petros Pharmaceuticals shifts from working on its own ED-switch proposals to developing a proprietary technology-assisted platform designed for use in consumers’ self-selection of drugs made available in ACNU proposals.
Today, Germany's switch committee, the SVA, will consider an application for exemption from requirement for sildenafil in 25mg and 50mg strengths. This is the third time the switch has been put to the committee, which has rejected it twice before.
Australian government finds an insufficient body of new evidence to support Rx-to-OTC switch of erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil since it was last considered in 2020.