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Prescription To OTC Switch

Allergy Ingredient Itch Warning, ACNU Final Rule Scratch Extent Of FDA Authority For Label Changes

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.

Trump Order To Improve Making More Drugs Available OTC Puts Wind Behind Petros’ ACNU Sails

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.

Access To Discounted Naloxone In California Expanded To All Consumers With Potential Need

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.

Preamble ‘Poison Pill’ Could Haunt ACNU Switch Rule – House Energy And Commerce Members

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.”

FDA Reverses Course, Allows Some Telework For Reviewers

The new telework policy returns to the pre-COVID-19 pandemic standard, but still requires reviewers to be at White Oak for sponsor meetings and divisions to have an in-office presence every day.

Roar Of Eargo-hearX Merger Echoes Through US OTC Hearing Aid Market

The firms recently announced they will operate as combined company LXE Hearing marketing Eargo’s namesake line and hearX’s Lexie brands. Eargo majority owner Patient Square Capital added $100m to its investment.

US FDA Allows Telework For Reviewers As Companies Detail Layoff-Related Problems

The new telework policy returns to the pre-COVID-19 pandemic standard, but still requires reviewers to be at White Oak for sponsor meetings and divisions to have an in-office presence every day.

That Loud Noise Echoing In US OTC Hearing Aid Market? Merger Of Eargo And HearX

The firms recently announced they will operate as combined company LXE Hearing marketing Eargo’s namesake line and hearX’s Lexie brands. Eargo majority owner Patient Square Capital added $100m to its investment.

Criticism Of US Progress On Sunscreen Ingredient Innovation Demands OMUFA Hearing Spotlight

Discussion of introducing additional OTC sunscreen ingredients escaped a total eclipse criticism of Trump’s health agency layoffs caused. Comments and questions by Republican members joined by several Democrats and focused testimony and answers by witnesses representing the industry and public health groups spotlighted sunscreen.

Arkansas Law For OTC Ivermectin Sales Doesn’t Answer Dose, Format And Access Questions

“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.

Marketplace Results After FDA OTC Monograph Overhaul Rely On OMUFA Reauthorization

“If this doesn’t get reauthorized, look at the number of the ingredients out there, the number of products, what would happen all those products out there for the consumer, on that shelf, in the drugstore or someplace?” says Rep. Bob Latta during House hearing.

Longer ACNU Rule Review Gets Kennedy Signature

Notice published on 21 March is a word-for-word copy, other than different dates, of a document published on 24 January, Kennedy says the ACNU final rule’s effective date is delayed until 27 May, two months later than the initial delayed effective date.